Quotes About Leadership

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

I would not be happy. If North Korea does a nuclear test, I will not be happy. And I can tell you also, I don't believe that the president of China, who is a very respected man, will be happy either.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

Lincoln, the Man of the People

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

Donald Trump cannot, cannot be the man who leads the United States of America.

The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.