Quotes About Leadership

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

Stern men with empires in their brains.

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.