Quotes about Leadership
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
- George W. Bush
Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
- Peter Drucker
Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.
- Ronald Reagan
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
- Isabel Allende
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
- Desmond Tutu
The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!
- John Maxwell