Quotes About Leadership

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Augustus Caesar

The "C" students run the world.

We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.

Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.