Quotes About Leadership

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.