Quotes about Leadership
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
With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.
— Abraham Lincoln
If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.
— James Dobson