Quotes About Leadership

Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

The students in your youth ministry don't need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.

We are either kings or pawns of men

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Even great men can be corrupted