Quotes About Leadership

instead of fighting the system, it was often better to say yes and then go off and do whatever you thought was best.

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He had the gift of all great tacticians. He could focus on the smallest detail and never lose sight of the overall picture.

America's politicians were concerned with nothing but the perpetuation of their own power through the next election cycle. The

Voters didn't care about public policy or economics or even their own well-being. What they wanted was to connect with their leadership on a gut level. To feel a part of something. To believe that they had power.

Everyone stood when Hayes entered the room. The President walked over to the German ambassador, Gustav Koch, and shook his hand. He then grabbed one of the two chairs in front of the fireplace. Michael Haik took the other chair, and Kennedy sat on the couch next to General Flood, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Next to General Flood sat his boss, Secretary of Defense Rick Culbertson. Directly across from them sat Secretary of State Midleton and the German ambassador

a job shortly after the two were sworn in. What Hayes

Jack, what do you think?

The noblest motive is the public good.

Just as, all too often, some huge crowd is seized by a vast uprising, the rabble runs amok, all slaves to passion, rocks, firebrands flying. Rage finds them arms but then, if they chance to see a man among them, one whose devotion and public service lend him weight, they stand there, stock-still with their ears alert as he rules their furor with words and calms their passion.

Dux femina facit.

Fracti bello fatisque repulsi ductores Danaum, tot iam labentibus annis, instar montis equum divina Palladis arte aedificant

Sic nos in sceptra reponis?

Tum vero exarsit iuveni dolor ossibus ingens, nec lacrimis caruere genae, segnemque Menoeten, oblitus decorisque sui sociumque salutis, in mare praecipitem puppi deturbat ab alta; ipse gubernaclo rector subit, ipse magister

At puer Ascanius, cui nunc cognomen Iulo additur,---Ilus erat, dum res stetit Ilia regno,--- triginta magnos volvendis mensibus orbis imperio explebit, regnumque ab sede Lavini transferet, et longam multa vi muniet Albam.

hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.

It is for men to make wage war and make peace; for that task is theirs.

caput acris equi;

Turne, tot incassum fusos patiere labores et tua Dardaniis transcribi sceptra colonis?

dux femina facti ; a  woman was the author of the achievement.

the whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was the inheritor; I, the continuer; I, the person miraculously appointed to carry it on.

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor. His was the power and the money and the influence. He was the proprietor of the paper and its editor and sub-editor. He was the Foreign Secretary and the Judge.

Who shall blame the leader of the doomed expedition, if, having adventured to the uttermost, and used his strength wholly to the last ounce and fallen asleep not much caring if he wakes or not, he now perceives by some pricking in his toes that he lives, and does not on the whole object to live, but requires sympathy, and whisky, and some one to tell the story of his suffering to at once? Who shall blame him?