Quotes About Leadership

Politics were the ultimate frustration.

that police captain, Jacob Mayhew, dropped

The best captain does not plunge headlong Nor is the best soldier a fellow hot to fight. The greatest victor wins without the battle....

Ale dnes svatozáÃ…â"¢ kolem hlav stát? zmizela. Jsou to lidé a jsou odpovÄ›dni za své ?iny. Od té doby, co evropské národy za?aly stavÄ›t své monarchy pÃ…â"¢ed soud a stínat jim hlavy, je úkolem národ? kontrolovat své v?dce. Státní akty jsou zárove? osobní akty. Odpovídají za nÄ› lidé jako jednotlivci.

Nebo: lidé prý vidÄ›li neÅ¡tÄ›stí, netajili se s tím a varovali. Ale to v politice neplatí, jestliže to nevedlo k ?in?m a jestliže tyto ?iny nebyly úsp?šné.

The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.

Whoever controls Germany, controls Europe.

Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as 'policy.

God uses the obstacles in our lives to prepare us for leadership, building courage, character, and confidence.

It was funny how so many men were defined by their downfall. Caesar, Fred Goodwin, Trotsky, Harvey Weinstein, Hitler, Jimmy Savile. Women hardly ever. They didn't fall down. They stood up.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men.

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.