Top 25 Great Leaders In History Quotes
#1. 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 C. Maxwell
#3. Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.
Tristan Perich
#4. Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past.
Pat Williams
#5. Ask nothing more of me sweet;
All I can give you I give;
Heart of my heart were it more,
More would be laid at your feet..
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#6. All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.
Henri Nouwen
#7. Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?
Dan Savage
#8. These days, when I knock on the doors of the Tryptamine Palace, I am no longer greeted with unconditional love, but instead, I am reminded of the responsibility that comes with ultimate knowledge: an undeniable responsibility to myself, to my tribe, to my species, to my planet.
James Oroc
#9. Home is people," she says to Asael, softly. Asael blinks. "Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind." Heresmith
N.K. Jemisin
#10. Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Allen Klein
#11. Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn't go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.
Charles Duhigg
#12. We get our dreams told to us. Girls. Every day.
Judy Blundell
#13. Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.
Joe Rogan
#15. He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent.
(on David Beckham)
Kevin Keegan
#16. Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution
Owen H. Lewis
#17. Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say.
C.L. Gammon
#18. I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
Richard Ernst
#19. Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
John Moody
#20. All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere
#21. We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders, and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.
Michael Barone
#22. A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
Plutarch
#23. (P58) It is curious how, with his stark Darwinian outlook, his elevation of war to the central place in human history, and his racism, as well as his fixation on "great leaders," Churchill's worldview resembled that of his antagonist, Hitler.
Ralph Raico
#24. The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#25. A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
Henry Kissinger
