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Quotes About Leadership

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
~ Milton Friedman
The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.
~ Jamie Oliver
It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
~ Johan Cruijff
As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is!
~ Marg Helgenberger
What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.
~ Idris Elba
The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.
~ Napoleon Hill
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
~ George Washington
Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
~ Charles de Gaulle
I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!
~ Cesare Borgia
So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.
~ Dmitry Pisarev
If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.
~ Lecrae
Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.
~ Theresa May
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.
~ Stuart Pearce
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .
~ Dwight L. Moody
Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.
~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
~ C. S. Lewis
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
~ Paul Washer
I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.
~ Eric Holder
Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.
~ Eugene V. Debs
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
~ Herbert Read