Quotes About Leadership

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

I'm the king of the anthems.

Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was disciplined.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

It's what kings do. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son to the next.

In an election, there are no kings.

We're the kings of partyin', and that's a great place to be. We can laugh stuff off and keep executing our vision of turning this world into a party planet.