Quotes about Leadership
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
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
— Henry David Thoreau
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.
— James Madison
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
— James Madison