Quotes About Leadership

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain similarities between him and me.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Many men today are running on adrenaline and not anointing.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.