Quotes About Leadership

Great men can't be ruled.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

Great times call for great men.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

All great men are partially inspired.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

A great man is made so for others.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.