Quotes About Leadership

Prussia," remarked Mirabeau, "is not a state with an army, but an army with a state.

Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.

Hitler was liquidating the past, with all its frustrations and disappointments. Step by step, and rapidly (as we shall see in detail later), he was freeing Germany from the shackles of Versailles, confounding the victorious Allies and making Germany militarily strong again. This was what most Germans wanted and they were willing to make the sacrifices which the Leader demanded of them to get it: the loss of personal freedom, a Spartan diet ("Guns before Butter") and hard work. By

If Chamberlain was right and honorable in appeasing Hitler in September 1938 by sacrificing Czechoslovakia, was Stalin wrong and dishonorable in appeasing the Fuehrer a year later at the expense of Poland, which had shunned Soviet help anyway?

But not by Hermann Goering. He cheated the hangman. Two hours before his turn would have come he swallowed a vial of poison that had been smuggled into his cell. Like his Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, and his rival for the succession, Heinrich Himmler, he had succeeded at the last hour in choosing the way in which he would depart this earth, on which he, like the other two, had made such a murderous impact.

He made it clear enough that there would be no "democratic nonsense" and that the Third Reich would be ruled by the Fuehrerprinzip, the leadership principle—that is, that it would be a dictatorship.

I'm glad you've seen the part played by our women in our movement, Gandhi beamed. The world has never seen such a magnificent spectacle. They were as brave as our men.

Let me on behalf of the leadership of TUC Rivers State; pledge to continue to stand by the workers and the ordinary people as well as on our original ideology as a mass movement.

The best soldiers are not warlike.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.

Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

The sheep may become king, but the sheep will always remember the lion. Congolese Proverb

Hiçbir kral, hiçbir imparator, hiçbir hükümdar devletini yitirdi?i için Boranl? Yedigey kadar umutsuzlu?a dü?memi?, onun kadar ac? duymam?? ve a?lamam??t?.

To [Chinese], war does not revolve around fighting. It is about determining the most efficient way of gaining victory with the least amount of conflict.

Come here into the hollow of my conscience I will show you a thing or two I will show you the heat of my love. You know what? I can give you babies too Real leaders of tomorrow Right here under the bridge I can give you real leaders of thought.

A chief does not hurry.

What kind of power was it if it would never be used?

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.