Quotes About Leadership

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Where the women go, the culture goes.