Quotes about Leadership

The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.

What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, "Lord, You are going to be my authority"? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

In all my acquaintance with General Armstrong I never heard him speak, in public or in private, a single bitter word against the white man in the South. From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

My experience teaches me that if a man has little or no influence with those by whose side he lives, as a rule there is something wrong with him.

In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites.

In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.

I believe Donald Trump is a good man. He did everything wrong as a candidate, and he won, and I don't understand it. Other than I think God put him there.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.