Quotes about Leadership

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men.

There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.

Put a dozen relatively like-minded people into the same crisis and you will see a dozen different responses. Some are heroes; others are cowards. Some are leaders; others are followers. Some are optimistic; others despair. Some shake their fist at God; others quietly submit. You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.

Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Example is leadership.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.