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Quotes About Leadership

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
~ Hermann Goring
Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
~ Benito Mussolini
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
~ William McKinley
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
~ Ferdinand Marcos
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
~ George William Curtis
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.
~ Earl Browder
I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.
~ Yoweri Museveni
You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!
~ James Arthur Ray
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
~ Leon Trotsky
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
~ Sonia Johnson
The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.
~ Greg Knight
There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.
~ William Halsey
I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.
~ Josefina Vázquez Mota
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
~ John Moody
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
~ Mark E. Hyman
Make history or be a part of it.
~ Phil Knight
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
~ George S. Patton
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
~ Winston Churchill
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
~ Tacitus
If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
~ Kushal Pal Singh
In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus
~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
~ Patrick Henry