Lee Bolman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

  • Whatever you are, be a good one.

  • Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

  • To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

  • Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

  • Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.

  • Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

  • History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

  • Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

  • The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.