Quotes About Leadership

O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.