Luc de Clapiers Quotes

When I select a leader I look for a person with integrity, intelligence and ambition. If he doesn’t have integrity I hope he doesn’t have the other two either.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Mexicans, I die with honour, and not as a traitor. That stain I will not bequeath to my children and their posterity; I am not a traitor, no.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age.

Men who have greatness within them don't go into politics.

He [Lord Rosebery] would not stoop [to common politics]; he did not conquer.

[In politics:] He who dallies is a dastard; he who doubts is damned.

Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.

I've learned that, in many cases, people say, 'I want ground truth,' and they don't really mean it. There are warts all over this organization, as there are in many organizations, but you just have to tell truth to power and let the chips fall where they may.

I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

First Lady Michelle Obama - I admire her confidence, integrity, intelligence, compassion, and her overall vibe - she is such an inspiration.

A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

I had dreams of high political office.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.