Quotes About Leadership

One has to tell people what to think. There's no alternative. Otherwise someone else will do it.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

He [Oliver Cromwell] in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house That they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good; and that it was not fit they should sit as a parliament any longer, and desired them to go away.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.

Now, Sir, for my own part, as I naturally hate the face of a tyrant, the farther off he is removed from me, the better pleased am I. The generality of mankind also are of my way of thinking, and have unanimously created one king, whose election at once diminishes the number of tyrants, and puts tyranny at the greatest distance from the greatest number of people.

among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls—men who

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Of course, with the arrival of both Washington and General Lincoln, La Fayette had lost his command and was again the leader of a mere division

Many women have distinguished themselves no less than men in the spiritual warfare, and some of them more … It was not only men but also women who followed Jesus, and he accepted help from women as much as from men. Basil of Caesarea Shorter Rules,

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Bien sabían los ingleses que las naciones se construyen sobre las tumbas de sus héroes. De no ser así, ¿para qué querían la abadía de Westminster?

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.