Quotes About Leadership

It was about getting what he wanted, and if he had to do business with an evil person like Mugabe, then so be it, as long as he got his part off the deal.

I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it...

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

We have successfully grappled with some giant evils and have slain them, but others to meet and conquer them is a question still. It depends upon the boys if today to answer that. It is upon their shoulders that the burden will fall, and they are ones to whom the fight is coming.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.