Quotes about Leadership
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
— Confucius
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
— Desmond Tutu
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
— Elbert Hubbard
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
— Napoleon Hill
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— St. Augustine
If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.
— Brigham Young
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
— Shimon Peres