Quotes About Leadership

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort, and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners, good breeding, and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal.

The reward of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it, but it's a kind iv a disgrace.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.'

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can not be told.

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell, Harricum!

In America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

The buck stops here.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.