Saint Augustine Quotes

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

A great man is one who deliberately causes something important to a happen, the probability of which seemed low before he took up the task. A great man is a man who gives history a turn which it could scarcely have taken without him. They give history a twist which nobody would have predicted. Great men leave permanent effects.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

Very few people transform their country.

High office—whether elected, appointed, or simply taken—comes with power. But that is not a sufficient precondition for success. Among the world’s hundreds …, only a few really stand out for the risks that they have taken and the changes they have made

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

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

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

All great men are partially inspired.

True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.