Quotes About Leadership

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

The world is anxiously waiting to see what Jesus Christ can do in, by, for, and through one man wholly given to him - God-led. You can be that man.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.