Quotes about Leadership

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

In short, contrary to the founders—and in ways they do not realize themselves—Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal. Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

God doesn't want courageous cowards; He needs confident commanders.

Thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ . . . ." 2 Corinthians 2:14

We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples.

We somehow have the idea that a person called to the ministry is called to be different and above other people. But according to Jesus Christ, he is called to be a 'doormat' for others--called to be their spiritual leader, but never their superior.