Quotes about Leadership
People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.
— Bill Gates
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
The great dream of Judaism is not to raise priests, but a people of priests; to consecrate all men, not only some men.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
In moments of great crisis they all fail—priests, philosophers, scientists—the prophets alone prevail.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
— Abraham Lincoln
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
— Abraham Lincoln
Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...
— Abraham Lincoln
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress July 4th, 1861
— Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.
— Abraham Lincoln
Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.
— Abraham Lincoln