Dentists encourage us to use dental floss daily to promote the health of our teeth; we need to use mental floss to get rid of old thinking and promote the health of our leadership.
Don't strive to be a leader, strive to be a server.Don't strive to be a general, strive to be a commander.Don't strive to be a teacher, strive to be a learner.Don't strive to be a warrior, strive to b...
(n.) The office of a leader.
Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.
Everything interested him and everything excited him.
Force is an ill broom to sweep anything clean with.
Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he i...
He (LBJ) played on their fears as he played on their hopes.
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangero...
He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.
He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist.
Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
I know nothing about war. But let me tell you what I believe. I think running from responsibility breeds self-loathing and despair. I think people can, and do, rise to the occasion, and even a single...
I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people...
I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately t...
Showing 2441 to 2460 of 2523 results