Quotes about leadership
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel: I mean your love.
Elizabeth II1926–2022Broadcast on her 21st birthday, from Cape Town (21 April 1947)
Havelock Ellis1859–1939Introduction to Huysmans’ Against the Grain (English translation of À rebours)
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969Living Under Tension (1941), p. 111The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
Erich Fromm1900–1980Credo (1965)As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020Statement of advice on being presented the Radcliffe Medal, as quoted in “Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg” by Colleen Walsh, in The Harvard Gazette (29 May 2015)
Rudy Giulianiborn 1944Speech before the Republican Party convention in New York. August 30, 2004.Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
