Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

If you want to achieve success in your life, first set your goal. Goals are a destination. Strategy is the road that leads to your destination. If you don't have goals, your strategy can be anything and you'll succeed at reaching your non-goals. Without a goal, every road will get you nowhere.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

self-acceptance is the act or state of understanding and recognizing one's own abilities and limitations. It’s relatively easy to accept ourselves when we just did something great—won an award, fell in love, or started a fantastic new job—but accepting ourselves at our lowest and with our faults and flaws in stark relief is the real mark of unconditional self-acceptance.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Power is like a virus that thrives in the lap of the egotistical and the more powerful the more the attraction to the opposite sex. Powerful people are likely to find that every mirror held up to them says, in effect, you are the fairest of them all.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

It is critical to understand the political objective or aim for which the war is being fought. These aims can be offensive, such as seizing a piece of a neighbor’s territory, or defensive, meaning holding what one has. Leaders must understand that weapons are not useful to achieve political objectives.