Quotes About Leadership

Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

All at once John was strong enough to bear the impatience of others, and with that the game was at an end. He moved at his own pace. He gave orders the way a carpenter drives nails, each straight and deep until it held. He paused where he wanted to, and not where others interrupted him.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

The successful salesperson makes a good leader because he or she inspires trust.

Now they needed a man to go across the line. Col. T.B. Hargis, Jr. called in Capt. Tom Stewart. Stewart, 30, was lanky, bookish and witty, a devout Christian and the son of a semi-famous senator from Tennessee. It's likely he was chosen because he was decisive and smart. He knew a smattering of German — plus he could ride a horse. That was more than enough to qualify him for the job.

We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.

Cooper took his hat off and swiped his forehead. Finally he spoke. "Well, Frank, to my mind, what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman. She should be who she is, not what others expect her to be." It's her land. As far as I'm concerned she's the boss.

Conquerors didn't make polite requests.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.