As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
— Othello
Quotes About Leadership
Aristotle held that he who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. Harry S Truman argued that men make history and not the other way around, and that in periods without leadership, society stands still. Dwight D. Eisenhower advised learning as much as you can from those who know more than you, do better than you and see more clearly than you.
Leaders have also been judged by what they get done. Abraham Lincoln praised Grant because wherever he is, he makes things move. Che Guevara put it briefly: the best form of saying is being. Augustine observed that every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself. Jean-Paul Sartre noted that only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. George Washington grounded it all in reading, calling a knowledge of books the basis upon which other knowledge is built.
Leaders have also been judged by what they get done. Abraham Lincoln praised Grant because wherever he is, he makes things move. Che Guevara put it briefly: the best form of saying is being. Augustine observed that every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself. Jean-Paul Sartre noted that only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. George Washington grounded it all in reading, calling a knowledge of books the basis upon which other knowledge is built.
He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.
— Great Expectations
He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.
— The Lord of the Rings
When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.
— Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.
— Murder in Mesopotamia
There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.
— City of God
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command
— The Prince
Great things in business are never done by one person, They are done by a team of people
— Steve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
— Margaret Thatcher
The best form of saying is being
— Passages de la guerre révolutionnaire : le Congo
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
— At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act.
— Plutarch's Lives, Vol 1
It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.
— A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
One reason I continue to oppose efforts to criminalize abortion is that I do not believe any government should have the power to dictate, through law or police action, a woman's most personal decisions.""I consider that a slippery slope to state control of reproduction, and I'd witnessed the consequences of such control in China and Communist Romania.
— Living History
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it
Every woman's man and every man's woman.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
A leader is best / When people barely know he exists / Of a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.
— Tao Te Ching
When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom
— Long Walk to Freedom