Quotes About Leadership

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

Being a leader is a lonely place, you got to be responsible for the decision you made that effect a lot of people. And when you make a decision it's never clear that your decision is right or wrong, it's always in a gray-area.

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day, but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

in Woodhull's home state of Ohio, he came from the American heartland. The electorate had endowed him with an authenticity to which Woodhull could respond. She had paved her way to the White House

Remember, consensus is not a decision-making strategy. In fact, it is the opposite. It's a technique to avoid making difficult choices.

You can learn to project more power without becoming meaner. In fact, that's your problem. You think mean and powerful are the same thing.

Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.

Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Khomeini and Khamenei were everywhere; on giant billboards at the roadside, as vast lurid murals on concrete apartment blocks and, less impressively, on sagging vinyl banners outside schools and mosques. With their almost identical appearance and surnames they reminded me of an Islamic Thomson and Thompson, the hapless detectives of the Tintin books. But that, I feared, was where the similarity ended.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality -- the power to inspire.

I've never been connected with a losing team and I hope to instill a winning spirit in the Packers in a lot less than five years.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.