Quotes about Leadership
Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
— Ayn Rand
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
— Woodrow Wilson
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