Quotes About Leadership

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.