Quotes About Leadership

Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB

You know the rule of the slog, boys. The knee that buckles pulls ten men down.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

We are very much in need now of Christian pioneers. This means a people who are zealous to grow and to exercise dominion in Christ.

Martin Luther spent two hours a day in prayer. John Wesley spent two hours a day in prayer. According to a recent poll taken on both sides of the Atlantic, the average church leader, pastor, priest, evangelist, teacher today spends four minutes a day in prayer and you wonder why the church is powerless.

Neither ritual decisions nor political leadership constitutes the main task of halakhic man. Far from it. The actualization of the ideals of justice and righteousness is that pillar of fire which halakhic man follows, when he, as a rabbi and teacher in Israel, serves his community.

Follow me,' Myrnin said. 'And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

Claire: So we do nothing? Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.

News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore," Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn't interfere with the flamethrower. "No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.

And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

Maybe we should go along, Shane said. Strength in numbers, man. Michael smiled at Eve and shook his head. After she bitch-slapped the Founder? Not a good idea.

This won't stop her from getting elected...Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy.

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

It's not the hair. You just--you're something else, Claire. It's like when all the rest of us don't know where to go, you ... just go. You're not afraid.

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

Well...I would make an awesome mayor. I'm very photogenic.

Because revolution rarely comes from those in charge.

It's almost like rising to the highest levels of power comes with a side order of sociopathy—who could have seen that coming?

Library rules the world, son. Best to have a seat at the table

Humanity is a parade of fools and I'm at the front, twirling a baton

Among the nations of Earth in all its history, ours is one of the precious few that has not brought forth its Hitler, its Stalin, its Pol Pot, its Mao Tse-tung, its Vlad the Impaler, the one who is never satisfied to have every knee bend to him but wants also to be the architect of a new world by destroying the existing one.

Over dinner, I had agreed to be her paladin, and no self-respecting paladin would decide on a course of action based on a majority vote of a committee of two.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.