John Buchan Quotes

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

We are here to make another world.

All I want to do is change the world.

Only I can turn this country around.

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

New laws are written, and new men are made.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Leaders are people who ‘walk ahead,’ people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

Very few people transform their country.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

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

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

Leadership is birthed out of anger!

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

It's not just enough to change the president if we want to change America.