Quotes About Leadership

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.

I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.