Quotes About Leadership

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed.

Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.