Logo
Quote by John Updike
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to tak

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 in the world. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

Category:
Patience
Author
John Updike
Read Quote

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

Category:
Food
Author
John Updike
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Leadership
category

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership. – Mario Monti

Category:
Leadership

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. – Harvey S. Firestone

Category:
Leadership

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealands had a leadership role in a lot of things. – Helen Clark

Category:
Leadership

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. – Chester Irving Barnard

Category:
Leadership

Random Quotes

Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. – Bernard Rosenberg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972

Category:
Generations

No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24 – Bible

Category:
Loyalty

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure. – Matt Blunt

Category:
Failure

A human life is a story told by God. – Hans Christian Andersen

Category:
Día de los Muertos