Quotes About Leadership

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress July 4th, 1861

Semua orang bisa tahan dengan kesengsaraan, tapi bila kau ingin mengetahui karakter seseorang, berilah dia kekuasaan.

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

Amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

September] 27th [1862] If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

He who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than ehe who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

Lincoln on Grant: He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

On peut tromper une partie du peuple tout le temps et tout le peuple une partie du temps, mais on ne peut pas tromper tout le peuple tout le temps.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.