Leaders Quotes
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. (Quote by - Ralph Nader)
Achilles absent, was Achilles still. (Quote by - Homer)
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. (Quote by - Lister Sinclair)
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, cut me down! If I die, avenge me! (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership. (Quote by - Theodore H White)
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. (Quote by - Ray Kroc)
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. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
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. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)
It is much safer to obey than to rule. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. (Quote by - Anthony J D'Angelo)
Follow me, if I advance; kill me if I retreat; revenge me if I die! (Quote by - Ngo Dinh Diem)
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. (Quote by - Dean William R. Inge)
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. (Quote by - Nehru)
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire (Quote by - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. )
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. (Quote by - Robert Lindner)
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct? (Quote by - Confucius)
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. (Quote by - Charles Yost)
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. (Quote by - Max DePree)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. (Quote by - Walter J Lippman)
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. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The only real training for leadership is leadership. (Quote by - Anthony Jay)
The crowd gives the leader new strength. (Quote by - Evenius)
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Quote by - Democritus)
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!' (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. (Quote by - Harold Geneen)
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. (Quote by - Marian Anderson)
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. (Quote by - John F Kennedy)
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
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. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. (Quote by - Lao Tse)
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
There are two levers for moving men (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership. (Quote by - Dwight D Eisenhower)
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. (Quote by - German proverb)
