Devotions on Leadership

Small Steps
Starfish
Subject: Senatorial Prayer

Quotations on Leadership

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
- Newt Gingrich
*** No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
- Andrew Carnegie
*** Education is the mother of leadership.
- Wendell Willkie
*** We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
- Lane Kirkland
*** When you're leading, don't talk.
- Thomas E. Dewey
*** Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
*** For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
- Spike Milligan
*** Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right"
- Max Stirner
*** He is great enough that is his own master.
- Joseph Hall
*** Always drink upstream from the herd.
- Will Rogers
*** Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
- Euripides
*** A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. (The Iliad)
- Homer
*** A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
*** Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu
*** To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'
- Lao Tzu
*** Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
- Bertrand Russell
*** What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- Sophocles
*** A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
- James Callaghan
*** A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
- Sam Houston
*** When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'
- Pat Robertson
*** The sky cannot have two suns.
- Chiang Kai-Shek
*** It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
*** The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
- Theodore Martin Hesburgh
*** But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
- Samuel Pepys
*** You had better have one King than five hundred.
- Charles II of England
*** Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
*** It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams
*** Grown men do not need leaders.
- Edward Abbey
*** A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
- Henry Kissinger
*** A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
- Henry Kissinger
*** To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
- Andre Malraux
*** Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
- George Will
*** A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
- Golda Meir
*** Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
*** So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
*** One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
- Arnold H. Glasow
*** The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.
- E. M. Kelly
*** The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
- Blaine Lee
*** The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
- Blaine Lee
*** The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann
*** The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
- Walter Lippmann
*** The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
- Andre Maurois
*** The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max de Pree
*** Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- Tacitus
*** Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
- Thomas J. Watson
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