Quotes About Leadership

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

The only politician in America I know with a man-date is Jim McGreevey.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.