Quotes About Leadership

Men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck, and they can turn the head any way they want.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's leaders are all linked up unconsciously with each other and with the masses, man, there's been this unanimous worldwide decision to trash the planet and get on to a new one.

It was Lord of the Flies without table manners.

Self-pity makes tyrants, it's the defining characteristic of brutal regimes

What they didn't tell you about absolute power was that it was never absolute; the instant you had it, someone had already lined up to try to take it away. Princes could sleep soundly, but never kings. The ear was always tuned for the creak on the

In Hell," she said, "someone's in charge.

way. Of profit. Of philosophy. Of a worldview that said rules apply only to the people who aren't in charge of making them.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism

In one case, you're hoping someone else will do the right thing. In the other case, you're directing your own life, even if someone else does something stupid. Guess which path is going to be more successful.

Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.

Also, the Israelites must have admired this man who chose to be one of them, when he could have led an utterly charmed life as an Egyptian prince.

God rested, we take over!

A husband's leadership in marriage is not based on superior abilities but on divine placement. Leadership means assuming responsibility for the relationship, being accountable to God and putting your wife's needs above your own. It means making her load lighter, not heavier. It means helping her develop and utilize her gifts and abilities. It means loving her sacrificially.

When taking care of a horse, what one must do is remove everything that is harmful to the horse in order to bring out the horse's own natural vitality. The way to rule the empire is similar.

iglesia del Nuevo Testamento siguió el ejemplo de su Maestro.

Win the crowd and you will win your freedom

Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit!

There is a saying: in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king. I promptly invented its analogy, based it on experience. When no one knows what to do anyone with a sensible suggestion is going to be listened to.

You'd forgive me for Claire - but not for killing your . . . men. He glanced at the two Craddocks, spotty as a pair of raisin puddings and - Grey's look implied - likely no brighter.

a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Because, Sassenach," he said, very dryly indeed, "when ye're a man, a good bit of what ye have to do is to draw up lines and fight other folk who come over them. Your enemies, your tenants, your children—your wife. Ye canna always just strike them or take a strap to them, but when ye can, at least it's clear to everyone who's in charge.

All over the clearing, the same thing was happening; the women gave not an inch, but their men stepped out before them. Anyone coming into the clearing would think that the women had melted into invisibility, leaving an implacable phalanx of Scotsmen staring down the glen.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases