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Quotes About Leadership

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
~ Confucius
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.
~ George W. Plunkitt
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
~ Lord Acton
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
~ Oscar Wilde
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
~ Albert Einstein
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
~ Ayn Rand
Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
~ Bruce Barton
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.
~ Melvyn Douglas
Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.
~ Napoleon Hill
There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'
~ Nelson Mandela
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.
~ Henry John Heinz
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
~ Hesiod