Quotes about Leadership

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.