Quotes About Leadership

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Get there first with the most men.

Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.