Quotes about Leadership

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

What women rightly long for is spiritual and moral initiative from a man, not spiritual and moral domination.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.

If I were emperor, king, or prince in a campaign against the Turk, I would exhort my bishops and priests to stay at home and mind the duties of their office, praying, fasting, saying mass, preaching, and caring for the poor, as not only Holy Scripture, but their own canon law teaches and requires.

Even if those in authority are evil or without faith, nevertheless the authority and its power is good and from God…. Therefore, where there is power and where it flourishes, there it is and there it remains because God has ordained it.

Even if there were 10 Popes or a thousand Popes, there would be no schism. The Unity of Christendom could be preserved under numerous heads just as the separated nations under different sovereigns dwell in concord.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.