Quotes about Leadership
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
— Vance Havner
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
— Heinrich Heine
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
— John Adams
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
— Confucius
Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.
— Donald Trump
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
— Abraham Lincoln
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
— Pope Benedict XVI