Quotes About Leadership

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Employers know the nature of people best.

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.

The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.