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Quotes About Leadership

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
~ Hillary Clinton
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
~ Thomas Paine
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.
~ Michael C. Burgess
In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.
~ Eric Hoffer
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
~ George Takei
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.
~ Michael Lee-Chin
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
~ George Washington
Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
~ Victor Pinchuk
It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
~ William Hague
People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
~ John Hodgman
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
~ John Leo
It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
~ Laozi
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
~ Aristotle
Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you
~ Sunday Adelaja
You cannot run a scociety or cope with it's problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
~ John Leo