Quotes About Leadership

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

With words we govern men.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.