Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

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"France has more need of me than I have need of France"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"The thought of being President frightens me, and I do not think I want the job"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"For me, every ruler is alien that defies public opinion"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress, some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You will find, as you grow older, that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability!"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"There is great force hidden in a gentle command"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

Nelson Mandela

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"We are not here to laugh"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

Vince Lombardi

"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Every President wants to do right"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

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