Quotes About Leadership From Presidents And Prime Ministers

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. Barack Obama (44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017)

If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love. Barack Obama

It is absolutely necessary… for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. George Washington (first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797)

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams (second President of the United States from 1797-1801)

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. Thomas Jefferson (third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809)

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829)

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945)

You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961)

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963)

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. John F. Kennedy 

The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds. John F. Kennedy

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. John F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy

Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right. Lyndon B Johnson (36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969)

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. Ronald Reagan (40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989)

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson (28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921)

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955)

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990)

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20 Famous War Quotes and Sayings

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.... Leo Tolstoy  "


"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war....Donald Trump "

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.... Martin Luther King. Jr. "

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.... Napoleon Bonaparte "

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.... Otto von Bismarck "

"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome...Isabel Allende "

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.... John Adams "

"War is never a lasting solution for any problem... A. P. J. Abdul Kalam "

 "To serve in the modern military - or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does - is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children's graduation from basic training.... J. D. Vance "

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.... Douglas MacArthur  "

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war... Douglas MacArthur "

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.... George Washington "

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.... Dwight D. Eisenhower "

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.... Sun Tzu "

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.... Lucius Annaeus Seneca "

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood... George S. Patton "

"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.... Jawaharlal Nehru "

"Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.... Pope Francis "

"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.... Sun Tzu "

"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!... George S. Patton "

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