Quotes About Leadership

In the words of E.M. Bounds in his book, Power Through Prayer: What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.

Great service doesn't happen without great people.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

Uncle Tom' did not originate in fiction. Nor did he die with the Emancipation proclamation. He is perpetuated and immortalized in the type of leadership that sells the Negro for a few 'sound American dollars.

One person must choose a new way of being and live that difference in the presence of others

Jade approached the group of boys slowly. There were five of them, four sitting with their shoulders angled toward the fifth, who stood with one foot in the bucket of a swing. If you check the body posture, you can always find the ringleader, he thought.

Who would you rather have? A leader who is unthinkingly loyal to opinions you disagree with? Or one who is insincere about opinions you share? A fool or a hypocrite? Too often, it seems, these are our only options. I don't know the answer.

if a man were an avowed communist, would our position be to excommunicate him or disqualify him for any position in the Church,

Power is not to be dropped from a plane

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

Project management is simply the process of managing projects (and you thought this was going to be difficult).

The process of leading a team that has never worked together before to accomplish something that has never been done before in a given amount of time with a limited amount of money

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

You put five intelligent people together and they vote like an idiot.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself out of their squabbles.

Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self-centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family- and social oriented in South-Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future.

One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn't necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions.

Adherence to principles, and adherence to the individual, combine to make the Rebel Army an indivisible fist.

En la vida hay dos formas de decir a la gente lo que tiene que hacer: o bien dando órdenes, o bien predicando con el ejemplo y animando al grupo a seguirlo.