Quotes about Leadership

Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.

If I were emperor, king, or prince in a campaign against the Turk, I would exhort my bishops and priests to stay at home and mind the duties of their office, praying, fasting, saying mass, preaching, and caring for the poor, as not only Holy Scripture, but their own canon law teaches and requires.

Even if those in authority are evil or without faith, nevertheless the authority and its power is good and from God…. Therefore, where there is power and where it flourishes, there it is and there it remains because God has ordained it.

Even if there were 10 Popes or a thousand Popes, there would be no schism. The Unity of Christendom could be preserved under numerous heads just as the separated nations under different sovereigns dwell in concord.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

An ambitious wolf will rise above a complacent lion.

Two thirds of leadership is encouragement.