Quotes About Leadership

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

There cannot be too many glorious women.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Few men are admired by their servants.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

Men are led by trifles.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.