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Quotes About Leadership

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
~ Albert Schweitzer
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.
~ Agathon
I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.
~ Amy Grant
He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
~ Ardant du Picq
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
~ Charles de Gaulle
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
~ Confucius
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
~ Demosthenes
Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.
~ Dennis Rainey
Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases
~ Diana Gabaldon
My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.
~ Dolores Huerta
If there was anybody I could meet that I have not met, I would say David. David from the Bible. He was a mighty man of God, and he was a warrior, and he was a worshipper.
~ Donovin Darius
The army teaches boys to think like men.
~ Elvis Presley
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
~ Ernest Lawrence
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men still have to be governed by deception.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!
~ George S. Patton
It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
~ Harry S. Truman
We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.
~ Hugh Gaitskell
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.
~ J. B. Priestley
It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.
~ Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau