Quotes About Leadership

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Only great men have great faults.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.