Quotes About Leadership

The system rather than the man was what would win the war.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence.

It's that big guy who's the government.

If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow.

With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.

Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old régime became the new régime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!

A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?

Time is the architect, the nation is the builder.

Do you permit it? Enjolras

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

Me, I'm much more than the master, I am the father.

Factions are blind men who aim correctly.

La doctrina significa aquello que hace que el pueblo esté en armonía con su gobernante, de modo que le siga donde sea, sin temer por sus vidas ni a correr cualquier peligro.

Those who do deeds sovereignly great are always sure of being served by somebody in the multitude.

All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.

he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted in his conscience, that all this had been good. What

Biassou raised his hand, and as if by enchantment the tumult was stilled, and each negro returned to his place in the ranks in silence. The discipline which Biassou had imposed upon his equals by the exercise of his power of will struck me, I may say, with admiration. All the soldiers of the force seemed to exist only to obey the wishes of their chief, as the notes of the harpsichord under the fingers of the musician.