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Quotes About Leadership

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Resist telling people how something should be done. Instead, tell them what needs to be done. They will often surprise you with creative solutions.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, are right
~ H. L. Mencken
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
~ H. L. Mencken
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
~ H. L. Mencken
I was black before I was a Christian. Martin and Malcolm, therefore, had to go together, which meant being unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.
~ James H. Cone
When a kingdom loses its king, there's always a scramble to grab.
~ james hadley chase
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol, 1774
~ James Hawes
The fact of the matter is, the more power you have, the easier it is to find solutions to any problems. You merely surround yourself with the right people, the right brains – they come up with the answers and you take the glory.
~ James Herbert
Cowboy-Up is a way of Life. What this country needs are more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It only takes one voice to give others the chance to see- "Every great dream, within their spirit made the dream reality.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You become more mature, when you take charge of your own life.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You become more alive, when you take charge of your own life.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do. Here's to the crazy ones, the ones who do.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
While we are reaching up for self-improvement, we also need to be the one some reach up to as well!
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.
~ James Joyce
archgoose of geese
~ James Joyce
believe long ago had decided it was better to be first in Gaul rather than second in Rome.
~ James Lee Burke
He had learned in Vietnam there were three groups of people who got you killed—pencil pushers, amateurs, and idealists.
~ James Lee Burke
The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their time in history rolls around again.
~ James Lee Burke
Without really trying to or meaning to, Mal had become the head of a family, and it was a family that took the fun out of dysfunctional.
~ James Lovegrove
TWO THERE SHOULD BE; NO MORE NO LESS. One to embody power, The other to crave it. - Darth Bane
~ James Luceno
You don't mind that the war will go on and on?" "Palpatine could have prevented it. Now it's up to people like you to end it." Tarkin nodded. "And so we shall.
~ James Luceno
His strategy of flying boldly into the face of adversity was studied and taught, and during the Clone Wars would come to be known as "the Tarkin Rush
~ James Luceno