Leader Quotes - Page 125

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.

Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)

There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I'm your leader.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy.

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.

Those who can command themselves command others.

The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.