Quotes About Leadership

Until heaven, there will be no government in which those who hold power are completely sinless and selfless, and in which all the precepts of God are perfectly followed.

Ministers are required to emphasize doctrines.

Don't be thanking me," he says. "You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand. Priests too.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

Rajiv Gandhi was the first prime minister of India who had actually done something else with his life before joining politics.

And with a single stroke of his pen, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed suspended the institutions of Indian democracy!

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill) and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the mighty from their seat.

So vast was the struggle to found the Roman state.

The organizer a woman.

People believe what they want to believe. They also believe what people in leadership tell them.

But you remember this, boy. Ain't nothin' better than bein' a leader. Ain't nothin' better than knowin' somethin' you done has made life better for folks.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is always an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers; the too fast, the timid and oneself.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

If a king goes mad, and runs about trying to find the king of his country, he will never find him, because he is the king himself.

lazy and content to lead an idle life, he is immoral, because upon him depend hundreds. If he gets riches, hundreds of others will be thereby supported.

We've never had kings in Wadingburn, and I don't intend for us to start now.

Witness: (...) This authoritarian leadership interfered with the personality and the personal feelings of the human being. The moment an individuality is absorbed into the concept of a collective body, every demand which is put to that individuality has to be absorbed into the concept of a collective system. Therefore, the demands of society are placed above every individual human being as an entity, and this entity, the human being, is completely used in the interests of that society.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

The departments are shit; decrees are shit.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.