Quotes About Leadership

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Great management is about character, not technique.

The reasons why institutions fail and societies change are complex, and simplistic explanations should evoke automatic suspicion. Sometimes external causes - droughts, plagues or foreign invasions - can unsettle a nation, or its leadership may prove inadequate because of personal factors. In every case, a society faces problems, and is solutions or lack of response set a course for the future.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

In the person of Quanah Parker, an extraordinary man in whom the blood of two strong peoples flowed, the Lone Star and the Comanche Moon at last found common ground.

Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.

It is more honour to serve God, than to have kings serve us.

Thomas Watson

He that commands us, will enable us.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Caesar does not love, nor does he inspire love. He diffuses an equable sense of ordered good will, a passionless energy that creates without fever, and which expends itself without self-examination or self-doubt.

A man can produce fortitude from his own vitals, but the true food of valor is example.

Las muchedumbres se dejan conducir por el entorno o por las voluntades y deseos de otros que son más fuertes.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Men make the city, and not walls or ships without men in them.

We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they remain fixed, than with good laws that are constantly being altered, that lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals.

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.

Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.