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Quotes About Leadership

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
~ Plato
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... this and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.
~ Plato
only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it
~ Plato
it is for the elder man to rule and for the younger to submit
~ Plato
Y así, Trasímaco --- dije yo-, nadie que tiene gobierno, en cuanto es gobernante, examina ni ordena lo conveniente para sí mismo, sino lo conveniente para el gobernado y sujeto a su arte, y dice cuanto dice y hace todo cuanto hace mirando a éste y a su conveniencia y ventaja.
~ Plato
anarchy should have no place in the life of man or of the beasts who are subject to man.
~ Plato
ION: Why, Socrates, the reason is, that my countrymen, the Ephesians, are the servants and soldiers of Athens, and do not need a general; and you and Sparta are not likely to have me, for you think that you have enough generals of your own.
~ Plato
President Barack Obama
~ Unknown
Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
~ Unknown
In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers. Thank You.
~ Unknown
And the greatest phrase, I think, in the history of politics is on all of those red and white hats that I see out there: 'Make America Great Again'.
~ Unknown
the South is the land of Washington, who made our Nation – of Jefferson, who shaped its direction – and of Robert E. Lee who, after gallant failure, urged those who had followed him in bravery to reunite America in purpose and courage." --President John F. Kennedy
~ Unknown
Válka, to je hlavnÄ› velký zmatek, na poli i v lidských hlavách: ?asto ?lovÄ›k ani nechápe, kdo vlastnÄ› vítÄ›zí a kdo prohrává, o tom pak rozhodnou generálové a ti, co píÅ¡ou dÄ›jepisné knihy.
~ Primo Levi
Humility is always the hardest lesson for a Prince Warrior to learn
~ Priscilla Shirer
Project Management Institute
~ Unknown
Project Management Institute
~ Unknown
We were taking one step for jocks, one giant leap for jock-kind.
~ Quan Barry
The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They march to save their wives and children. Their tribes and their nations. If they learn that the world, their world, slips into ruin behind them, that their wives and daughters may perish for want of their shields, their swords, the Host of Hosts would melt about the edges, then collapse.
~ R. Scott Bakker
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyo but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number wh obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB   When
~ R. Scott Bakker
Ajencis," he continued, "once wrote that all men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves—they are the rulers of Men . . .
~ R. Scott Bakker
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken.
~ R. Scott Bakker