Quotes About Leadership

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached, but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgment of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me.

The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.