Leader Of Men Quotes

#1. The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.

Marcus Garvey

#2. All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

Hakeem Olajuwon

#3. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Stephen King

#4. The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Samuel Smiles

#5. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership.

John Updike

#6. I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

Steve Martin

#7. When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know you have come into the presence of fire; that it is best not incautiously to touch that man; that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. - WOODROW WILSON

Robert A. Caro

#8. Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

Bill Condon

#9. Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.

Chris Alexander

#10. In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Euripides

#11. Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men.

Hosni Mubarak

#12. A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#13. I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Buddha

#14. North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

Barbara Demick

#15. As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

Rafael Cruz

#16. I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

Patrick DeWitt

#17. Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men.

Tawakkol Karman

#18. If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats ... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

Woodrow Wilson

#19. Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Robert Dale Owen

#20. A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Jim George

#21. To get the best out of your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they can depend upon you.

John J. Pershing

#22. Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?

Arthur Keith

#23. Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

Anthony Storr

#24. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

#25. The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

Sun Tzu

#26. If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits. Their leader was Josef Stalin (Russian for "Joey Bananas")

Dave Barry

#28. Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

Carl Jung

#29. Men spoke of tribal war, of a gathering of vultures in the southeast, and a terrible leader who led his swiftly increasing hordes to victory.

Robert E. Howard

#30. The head of the AFL-CIO endorsed John Kerry, saying, 'The time has come to come behind one man, one leader, one candidate.' Then he said, 'And until we find that man, we will endorse John Kerry.'

Conan O'Brien

#31. Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men
the other 999 follow women.

Groucho Marx

#32. A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#33. God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to freely choose to love or to hate Him, to receive Christ as Savior and Lord or to reject Him.

Dave Hunt

#34. We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

Richard Burr

#35. 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

#36. King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades.

George W. Bush

#37. No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Archibald Wavell

#38. To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Havelock Ellis

#39. I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Maynard James Keenan

#40. I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Lee Kuan Yew

#41. What supporters say about their leader
tells men a third about who he is.
What supporters do for their leader
tells men two thirds about who he is.
What supporters give up for their leader
tells men all of who he is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#42. I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

Harriet Harman

#43. Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.

Mary Parker Follett

#44. He had placed the life of every one of his men before his own, and if that wasn't the sign of a truly great leader, then he didn't know what was.

Elaine White

#45. My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

Dan Fogelberg

#46. Thus Gonzo, incendiarist and leader of men.

Nick Harkaway

#47. I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

Dan Harmon

#48. When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

Joss Whedon

#49. A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.

Suzy Kassem

#50. I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.

Maajid Nawaz

#51. Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring givers, the gold givers.

Bernard Cornwell

#52. I could almost imagine him as a leader of men without laughing hysterically. [Why are you glaring at me, Carter? That was quite a generous description.] Carter

Rick Riordan

#53. The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#54. The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

Will Rogers

#55. I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

Judy LaMarsh

#56. Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

Richard Condon

#57. Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#58. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

John Steinbeck

#59. The bungling, the mendacity and the cynicism of the men responsible both for the disaster and the attempt to cover it up could not be dismissed as a regrettable perversion of Soviet values: they were Soviet values, as the Soviet leader began to appreciate.

Tony Judt

#60. In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

Douglas Mawson

#61. A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.

Desmond Tutu

#62. Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.

Tasha Smith

#63. Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

Frederick Schiller Faust

#64. Hush," said January. "We may be old, but we're not silly. Satan is a catchall term. It gives identity to our theory of a centralized leadership. Call him what you want, a maximum leader, a caudillo. A Genghis Khan or Sitting Bull. Or a council of wise men, or warlords. The concept is sound. Logical.

Jeff Long

#65. What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

Yoshida Shoin

#66. It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#67. One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

John McGraw

#68. See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!

Wilhelm Reich

#69. The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

Adolf Hitler

#70. Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

Sebastian Junger

#71. They had remained silent during the trial, their leader stating only that the disease was God's vengeance on sinners and the unclean. Lean men with shaven heads and blank, implacable eyes, they were God's gunmen, and would stare, as such, from all the tapes of history, forever. But

William Gibson

#72. The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

John Keegan

#73. Leadership isn't the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It's a process ordinary people use when they're bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.

James M. Kouzes

#74. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.

Frank Herbert

#75. Creon: See that you never side with those who break my orders.
Leader: Never. Only a fool could be in love with death.
Creon: Death is the price - you're right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.

Sophocles

#76. Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

Vince Lombardi

#77. Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but only God.

Samuel Logan Brengle

#78. You got responsibilities when you're a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who're you going to lead?

Mark Lawrence

#79. Gates should have exceeded Washington as a military leader. He had long experience in a professional army and was more loved by his men. But Washington's character was superior to that of his rival, and it made him a great man, whereas Gates was merely a good soldier.

John Ferling

#80. To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products.

Paul Goodman

#81. Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.

Gary Rohrmayer

#82. You said "Is THIS the behaviour of a leader of men?" What do you mean? Are you asking me if leaders have consensual sex with their long-term monogamous partners? Yes. They do. Are you asking, are leaders ever betrayed? Yes. All the time.

Robin York

#83. A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.

George Washington

#84. Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

Jim George

#85. Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

David McCullough