Leadership Quotes

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

When we think we lead we most are led.

An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.

If the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch.

Matthew

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

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.

Thriving leaders are the ones surrounded by diverse people from different generations.

Jon Mertz

Most people have no idea why others do what they do..The whole World from their own little mind decide 'what' it is..Sad when reasonably intelligible people continue to judge & judge..7.2 billion people under the Sun, how many can one please???Therefore....

Abha Maryada Banerjee

You don’t have to be dead to leave a legacy.

Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.

Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

Melissa G. Wilson

Indecisive? Ask Yourself the Question: Does It Add Value To My Life and Makes Me Happy?

Following the herd reduces you to a cow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The shepherd's fortune is in his sheep.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Passion + Persistence + Patience = Success.

Ordinary leaders move mounds,good leaders move hills,but great leaders move mountains.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You all are the reason for my existence,if there is no YOU, there is no ME

An innovative idea is special because only a certain few get to have it

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

Guide humbly.Guide happily.Guide hopefully.Guide honorably.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Guide impactfully.Guide impressively.Guide intuitively.Guide incredibly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Guide valiantly.Guide venerably.Guide valiantly.Guide virtuously.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Suspense consumes your opponents, whereas mystery intrigues your followers.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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