Quotes About Leadership

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!

Behind every great man is an even greater woman.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

It is the success which makes great men.

Great men have big failures.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

There is always room for the man of force.

And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.

New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.