Woodrow Wilson Quotes about Leadership

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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership, Patriotic, Voice

Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership, Sports, Spiritual

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

Inspirational, Leadership, Successful

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.72, NYU Press

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership, Men, Blow

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

Leadership, Men, Play

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.216, Lexington Books

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership, Real, Struggle