Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When Nelson Mandela came into the room, he changed the room.

A great man is one sentence.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Peter Kaplan was a giant.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

A great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.

It is very difficult to capture over the centuries, the charisma of an individual.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

LeBron carries a certain weight. You feel him all the time. On the court, off the court, in the organization. I don't say 'weight' in a bad way, but his presence is always felt. He is striving for greatness at all times. Because he's such a magnetic personality and such an incredible basketball player, people follow him.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.

Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

God has blessed me with a certain amount of presence and a certain amount of charisma.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.

We convince by our presence.

A great man is one who deliberately causes something important to a happen, the probability of which seemed low before he took up the task. A great man is a man who gives history a turn which it could scarcely have taken without him. They give history a twist which nobody would have predicted. Great men leave permanent effects.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.