Peter Cosgrove Quotes

#1. But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

Peter Cosgrove

#2. Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Peter Cosgrove

#3. Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Peter Cosgrove

#4. We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.

Peter Cosgrove

#5. We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

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#6. Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

Peter Cosgrove

#7. Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware of your own human frailty and a need to be nurturing and compassionate and fatherly

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#8. I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

Peter Cosgrove

#9. Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

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#10. Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.

Peter Cosgrove

#11. They (the youth of Australia) are out there clamouring in all forms of voice, and they are not so much hedging us older Australians aside as saying, 'For heaven's sake, listen to us and empower us to help drive this country towards a wonderful future.'

Peter Cosgrove