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Quotes About Charisma

There is something fundamental about Leo in terms of what he transmits to the supporters and what he transmits to the opposition when he starts to run at you. And I speak from experience.
~ Ernesto Valverde
I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
~ Landon Donovan
The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
pustular berk with the charisma of a plimsole
~ Julian Barnes
You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word, and a gun than you can with a smile and a kind word. -Al Capone
~ Karen Abbott
Don't sell yourself short, young man,' he said sternly. 'These people don't need charisma. They need hard work and the truth- exactly what you've given them. ... Popularity isn't everything. In fact, it isn't anything when you get right down to it. The majority is rarely right.
~ Karen Hancock
small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter's.
~ Karin Slaughter
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
~ Jean Paul
Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.
~ Richard Overy
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.
~ Bill Veeck
Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.
~ Eve Babitz
Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.
~ Ovid
Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.
~ Maya Angelou
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
~ Samuel Smiles
Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.
~ George Hamilton
I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.
~ Chris Matthews
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
~ Aristophanes
Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.
~ Bridget Moynahan
Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.
~ Carl Jung