Quotes About Leadership

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.