I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

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.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

One must steer, not talk.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.