Quotes About Leadership

He told conductors how to conduct and painters how to paint. As Edward said unkindly, he was "the most brilliant failure in history."33

Since Husk's downfall, Brother Fir had quietly and sensibly taken control of the situation. He had told the islanders of the long ago time when a squirrel king had committed murder and sacrifice in that chamber. He had opened it, blessed it, filled it with candlelight, watched, prayed, and sung in it, night and day, cleansing it of its past. It was now the Chamber of Candles, a place of prayer and peace.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

Women have an important contribution to make.

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

If you lead a country like Britain… you have to have a touch of iron about you.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.