Leaders Quotes

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

Every woman's man and every man's woman.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoléon Bonaparte

I've got to follow them - I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld

If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!

Benito Mussolini

Follow me if I advance kill me if I retreat revenge me if I die!

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

Lister Sinclair

As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say 'we did it ourselves!'

Lao Tzu

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Antoine De Saint Exupery

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

Charles de Gaulle

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

Maurice Duplessis

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.

Napoléon Bonaparte

He who would rule must hear and be deaf see and be blind.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Thomas à Kempis

It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.

Dean William R. Inge

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Napoléon Bonaparte

To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.

William Hazlitt

With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

Homer

To lead the people walk behind them.

Lao Tzu

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

Richard rubbed his temples. He had a headache from lack of sleep. "Don't you understand? This isn't about conquering lands and taking things from others; this is about fighting oppression."The general rested a boot on the gilded rung of a chair and hooked a thumb behind his wide belt. "I don't see much difference. From my experience, the Master Rahl always thinks he knows best, and always wants to rule the world. You are your father's son. War is war. Reasons make no difference to us; we fight because we are told to, same as those on the other side. Reasons mean little to a man swinging his sword, trying to keep his head.

The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That’s why it cannot last." "Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?""The need to lead is a symptom.

Whitley Strieber

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ.

There are no perfect leaders.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Ogwo David Emenike

We are attempting to build, within our movement, non-exploitative ways of relating to one another based on trust and concern rather than political expediency. We have serious personal/political intentions in breaking down hierarchical and elitist structures, and for experimenting with leaderless groups and collective decision making. In dealing with the media these revolutionary principles and practices are destroyed. The media works to create leaders, it knows no way of relating to us on our own terms. Being interviewed and presented as a leader is a real ego trip--the media brings out the most counter-revolutionary traits in people. Elitism, dissension and division are the ultimate results.

Those who are blindly led, blindly follow.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

A leader is one who chooses the interest of his followers over his personal ignominy. He can beg, steal and even snatch for the followers. He suffers individual loss for the sake of the gain of his followers. That makes him a leader whom people follow because they themselves do not have the courage to do so. People do not mind if someone else does all the dirty jobs for them while they can enjoy the fruits without getting their own hands dirty.

We praise our leaders when they act against our adversaries. But when our own interest is threatened, we begin to dislike the same leaders, irrespective of the sincerity of their intentions. An effective leader is bound to create enemies.

Hatred is the emotional price leaders must pay for getting love and honour.

Effective leaders have the ability to serve and appreciate others while at the same time enabling them to achieve greatness.

-Shandel Slaten

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.

S. E. Entsua-Mensah

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