Community Quote by Noah Webster

If you rely on political factions to promote men to office, the people will work to develop instrumental relationships and will not seek to…

— Han Fei

“...it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one…

— Aristotle

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

— Cary Grant

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and…

— Malcolm Forbes

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.

— Stephen Colbert

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence…

— Andrew Jackson

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

— Simon Sinek

The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He…

— Confucius

It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal…

— John Paul Jones

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

— Walter Lippmann

“…money and honour have no attraction for them; good men do not wish to be openly demanding payment for governing and so to get…

— Socrates