Quotes About Leadership

You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

Great men should not have great faults.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.

Not every great man is a grand human being.