Leadership Quotes - Page 127

It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

The enemy just hates our prayers.

I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown up in a generation that thinks where meeting with a God is an ordinary thing.