In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.
My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.
American leadership is essential.
Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.
If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
Live to learn and you will really learn to live.
Cats do what cats do, ducks do what ducks do, and eagles do what eagles, do. If you take a duck and ask it to do an eagles' job, shame on you. As a leader, your job is to help your ducks to become better ducks and your eagles better eagles - to put individuals in the right places and help them reach their potential.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.
The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.
