Quotes About Leadership

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.