Quotes About Leadership

It is the women who are responsible for bringing along the next generation to carry the culture forward.

Women can help turn the world right side up. We bring a more collaborative approach to government. And if we do not participate, then decisions will be made without us.

Women can help turn the world right side up. We bring a more collaborative approach to government. And if we do not participate, then decisions will be made without us. Wilma Mankiller, Denver, September 1984

The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the ultimate word on every subject under the sun from how to handle the Russians to why undergraduates riot in the spring. Profound with a wit that bubbles up and brims over in a cascade of brilliance. You may have guessed who the leading candidate is, but there is a question about him Is God a Yale man

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, "Knowing you're wrong." Lieutenant

Each night before falling asleep, Hill would close his eyes and imagine himself to be in the company of nine "invisible counselors" modeled after his nine greatest heroes: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Luther Burbank, Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said ó namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable.It fell to me to express it.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

The German dictator, instead of snatching the victuals from the table, has been content to have them served to him course by course.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.