Quotes About Leadership

In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.

Mr. Attlee is a modest man with much to be modest about.

Thereafter mighty forces were adrift, the void was open, and into that void after a pause there strode a maniac of ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast—Corporal Hitler.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away.

some day, in a time of shame and trouble, a second great Prophet will arise—a Mahdi who shall lead the faithful nearer God and sustain the religion.

Gandhi... ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back. Gandhi-ism and everything it stands for will have to be grappled with and crushed.

I should be unworthy of your confidence and generosity if I did not still cry: Forward, unflinching, unswerving, indomitable, till the whole task is done and the whole world is safe and clean.

A wit wrote ten years ago: "The leaders of thought have reached the horizons of human reason, but all the wires are down, and they can only communicate with us by unintelligible signals.

3760we will fight them on the beaches

It is not a question of one General being better than another, but of one General being better than two.

Silence is the secret of war.' —PRIOR

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

In total war it is quite impossible to draw any precise line between military and non-military problems.

I could never run for President of the United States. All that handshaking of people I didn't give a damn about would kill me. Ten minutes here. Ten minutes there…Not for me.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.

As Lord Kitchener observed after one heart-shaking discussion: 'We cannot make war as we ought; we can only make it as we can.

Cabinet Minister: "The trouble with the Germans is that they are like a lot of sheep; they will follow anybody."] Oh, it is far worse than that, they are carnivorous sheep!

No operation of a war is more critical than a night-march.

Power, for the sake of lording it over fellow-creatures or adding to personal pomp, is rightly judged base. But power in a national crisis, when a man believes he knows what orders should be given, is a blessing.

the Battle of Alamein, called Desert Victory.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders

the result will require that the U.S.A. and the United Kingdom should exert all their influence to get Russia to act moderately and sensibly and not to flout world opinion.

It is not known which of the three chiefs first conceived the master-plan by which the peace of the world is now so well defended that national armaments are falling into increasing neglect.

all he wanted was toleration, and by the enlightened use of the dispensing power to be the true father of all his people.