#leadership

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#leadership #passion #inspirational

Humble people know their limitations: they know what they know, and they know what they do not know; they know what they can do or be, and they know what they cannot do or be ↗

— John Adair

#leaderships #religion #wisdom #inspirational

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#chinese #congress #day #ensure #forget

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#athletic #both #burdens #character #consists

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #destiny #leadership #our #preparing

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream. ↗

— David Miliband

#back #bring #british #cameron #conservative

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ↗

— J. P. Morgan

#always #anything #doing #good #good reason

Leadership must be established from the top down. ↗

— Sam Nunn

#established #leadership #must #top

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. ↗

— Barack Obama

#better #debate #debt #debt limit #deserve

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. ↗

— Barack Obama

#degrees #drive #eat #expect #going