Quotes About Leadership

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

As the government is, such will be the man.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

One man by delaying saved the state for us.