Patrick Dodson famous quotes

07-19-2025

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.
-- Patrick Dodson

#Leadership #Impossible #Absence
In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.
-- Patrick Dodson

#Leadership #Strong #People
These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this beautiful and bounteous land. Many Australians of goodwill sense that a moment for national leadership has slipped past us and is gone.
-- Patrick Dodson

#Leadership #Beautiful #Heart
For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.
-- Patrick Dodson

#Leadership #Long #Community
We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.
-- Patrick Dodson

#Future #Knowing #Australia

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
Why is love intensified by absence?

You may also like:

Cathy Freeman
Olympic athlete
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Jackie Huggins
Historian
Ken Wyatt
Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Mick Dodson
Academic
Neville Bonner
Australian Politician
Noel Pearson
Lawyer
Paul Keating
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Pauline Hanson
Former Member of the Australian Parliament
Lowitja O'Donoghue
Nigel Scullion
Australian Senator
Warren Mundine
Political leader