The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Before all else, be armed.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

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.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

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.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.