Quotes About Leadership

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And let's remember that science isn't a game of chess, although chess may be played scientifically. The other thing to remember is that if we are to organize the masses we must first organize ourselves.

Only men who are not only corrupt but whose corruption has frozen over and hardened can confess the things they do and still accept positions of leadership. They are dead men and unless they're controlled by public opinion and every other available force, they're as dangerous as Nazis. More so, because they still speak in the name of the only possible future. I

Our job is not to ask them what they think but to tell them

A great man is always willing to be little.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

Be an opener of doors

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man

Go where there is no path and leave a trail.

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who knows why will always be his boss.

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs