Harry S Truman Leadership Quotations

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Leadership is the art to have people do something they dislike, and have them enjoy it

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel? What would have happened to the Reformation if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It's right and wrong and leadership.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.