Quotes About Leadership

We can give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Nothing is so catching as example.

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

Only great men have great faults.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Chaque moderne porte en soi une petite Église infaillible dont il est le Christ et le Pontife et la grosse affaire est d'attirer le plus grand nombre possible de paroissiens.

No government can remain stable in an unstable society and an unstable World.

It is really quite extraordinary that some people should speak to us of tyranny in the present Party: tyranny of bosses, tyranny of elected parliamentary deputies. I don't know what means the deputies employ today to exercise their tyranny, but at least you know who they are, and you can take their means away from them. From where will you take them tomorrow? From anonymities, from unknown persons, from masks.

Patton hated and dreaded mediocrity. A few days before his death he wrote to Robert P. Patterson, who had succeeded Mr. Stimson as Secretary of War: "Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

In the hospital, there also was a man trying to look as if he had been wounded. I asked him what was the matter, and he said he just couldn't take it. I gave him the devil, slapped his face with my gloves and kicked him out of the hospital. Companies should deal with such men, and if they shirk their duty they should be tried for cowardice and shot. I will issue an order on this subject tomorrow.

When Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, was told that a certain city in his army's path was impregnable, he asked: "Is there not a pathway to it wide enough for an ass laden with gold?" It was the fate of Vidkun Quisling to be nothing but an ass.

Patton was bombed, strafed, shelled—but he thrived on it. At the summit of a badly littered road over a hill he stopped to survey the scarred and scorched landscape of war—rubbish that used to be farms, fields in which the grass was burning, hundreds of stiff-legged, dead cattle. He threw out his arms as if trying to embrace the scene, and shouted to the sky, "Could anything be more magnificent?!

Ladislas Farago

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

It is easy to blame the cacique, Tahacha said. But he is only a man; he derives his power from other men, who will follow him for only as long as they believe in him. It

But he is only a man; he derives his power from other men, who will follow him for only as long as they believe in him.

Follow me," said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.

Am I the only non-idiot on the planet?" "Yes, Morgan Toth, you are," Gabriel piped up. "Will you be our king?

Ves lo que pasa cuando titubeas? Que otros toman las decisiones por ti.

He led, and Ziri knew firsthand how his fearlessness spread like wildfire in the fray. It was what made him great.

Some men are born for great things, and others to help great men do great things.