Quotes About Leadership

The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Let right be your light May you always burn bright Glowing the path for others.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his followers.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.

It's like the craziest patient at the insane asylum running the place because he's the most "qualified."

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

I think there's one higher office than president, and I would call that patriot...

We have all taken risks in the making of war and in the going into wars. Is it not time that we should take some risks to secure peace? So long as we think of peace in terms of war we shall never get peace.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés as the first prize.

A statesman is a man that can do what the politician would like to do but can't because he is afraid of not being elected.

But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it.

The United States Senate opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

The principle is that the qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. There is a simple democratic theory that the best man gets the office. In American thinking this is badly mixed up with the idea that some men "deserve" office, as if the right to control other men, to blast or benefit the future, were something that should be paid over as a reward for achievement in other fields or for virtue.

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can be killed only once, but in politics many times.