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Quotes About Leadership

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
~ George Eliot
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
~ George Jean Nathan
There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
~ George S. Patton
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.
~ Golda Meir
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
~ Lucan
There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.
~ Lupe Fiasco
A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
~ Malcolm X
Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
~ Mark Twain
This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
~ Molly Ivins
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
~ Napoleon Hill
I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.
~ Narendra Modi
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.
~ Pope Pius XI
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.
~ Orson Scott Card
Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
~ Bennie Thompson
A great man is one sentence.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
None but great men are capable of having great flaws.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld