Quotes About Leadership

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cae-

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'we did it ourselves!'

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.