Quotes About Leadership

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

Men make history, not the other way around.

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

We are all the President's men.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.