Quotes About Burden Of Leadership

#1. It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#2. In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

Eskinder Nega

#3. believed it was better to assume the burden of leadership than to drift along in the shadows.

Robert M. Edsel

#4. That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.

Brent Weeks

#5. I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

John Hurt

#6. He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

Malcolm X

#7. President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

Jay Leno

#8. Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

John C. Maxwell

#9. At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.

Ben E. King

#10. American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

Barack Obama

#11. When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.

Eric Hutchinson

#12. Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

Kent Nerburn

#14. Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition.

K.J. Kilton

#15. I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!

Monique Roffey

#16. All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.

Tim Lebbon

#17. Yeah, but where I come from, we have lights at night." "We do, too. They are called stars. They are quite romantic.

Alex Flinn

#18. Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

Johnny Hunt

#19. No one ever told me that it might be different. That it would be okay to be different.

Kelly Quindlen

#20. A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.

J. Loren Norris

#21. Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.

Peter Northouse

#22. Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.

Bruce Riedel

#23. I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next general election. I hope it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the Party about its future leadership.

Harold Macmillan

#24. Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others.

Nancy Pearcey

#25. Inspiration comes from somewhere else, and some people merely act as lightning rods for inspiration. There's nothing great about them.

Cockballs

#26. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Barack Obama

#27. You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Andy Stanley

#28. A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may be, such a hopeless task before her.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#29. It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership ... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#30. Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

W. Eugene Smith

#31. It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Kamisese Mara