Quotes About Leadership

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

God uses young people again and again to help restore and shape the destiny of nations...Young people stand at the heart of the salvation story.

Even worship is less important than Jesus. In fact, worship can become an idol in the church. Some Christians probably worship worship more than they worship Jesus. Some worship leaders probably worship worship-leading more than they worship Jesus. It was never meant to be an industry, a genre in Walmart, a karaoke show on Sunday. If you really want to lead worship, learn to wonder.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

We're waist deep in the Big MuddyAnd the big fool says to push on.

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

Treating employees like owners and business partners—that's how you can create value and make this more than just a feel-good story.

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.

The inescapable conclusion is that Washington was a Christian.

The idea of morning and evening prayer led by a military officer was part of the Virginia in which Washington was raised.40

A successful leader must lead by example.

Washington could not have called on his men to be such authentic Christians, if he was not trying to be such a Christian as well.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

Todo el mundo puede ser un guía si quiere serlo.

Great leaders not only treat people with respect and dignity, they hold others accountable for doing the same.

WASHINGTON LOVES the ones who grease its gears. But history only remembers the ones who shift them," the late Washington Post writer Marjorie Williams wrote of Baker.

Trump was often just one yes-man away from doing what he wanted. One attorney general. One military commander. One vice president.

Bush felt fortified in his resolve when he stopped by Rice's office one day that week while she was meeting with Elie Wiesel, the famed Holocaust survivor. Bush had just read Michael Beschloss's book The Conquerors, about how Franklin Roosevelt and other leaders failed to act to stop the Holocaust. "I'm against silence," Wiesel told him. "I'm against neutrality because it doesn't ever help the victim. It helps the aggressor.

Rustin foresaw a terrible chain reaction: black violence, inflamed by militant black leadership, producing a white backlash that would destroy liberalism just when it was poised to produce real change.