Quotes About Leadership

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

George Washington, Commander of the American armies, who, like Joshua of old, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still, and they obeyed him.

A republic, if you can keep it.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

One of the greatest captains of the age.

Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

He that cannot obey cannot command.

We may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct.

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours the less distinguished.

A Republic Madam...if you can keep it.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes and in some things, absolutely out of his Senses.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forc'd by the occasion.

On the whole, I wonder'd much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

On the whole, I wondered much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

In free governments the rulers are the servants.

Benjamin Franklin

sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donets, and whistling to his own leash of borzois,