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Quotes About Leadership

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
~ James A. Garfield
Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.
~ Eric Voegelin
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
~ Seneca the Younger
A woman's sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.
~ M. Russell Ballard
If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.
~ Dalia Mogahed
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
~ Ida Lupino
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
~ James A. Garfield
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.
~ Maynard James Keenan
War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
~ George S. Patton
the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!
~ Johnnetta B. Cole
I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
~ Livy
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
~ Paul Keating
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
~ Sonny Bono
If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.
~ Stefan Molyneux
A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.
~ Walter Raleigh
There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
~ Abraham Flexner
It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!
~ Rudolf Rocker
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
~ Seneca the Younger