Leadership Quotes


It is a fine thing to command, even if it be only a herd of cattle.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish author.

To be Omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822) English poet.

To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) British Psychologist.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher.

Only he can command who has the courage and initiative to disobey.
William McDougall (1871-1938) British psychologist

We were not born to sue, but to command.
King Richard, King Richard II William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet.

It is always a great mistake to command when you are not sure your will be obeyed.
Honore, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-18984) Scottish author.

Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!.
Ngo Dinh Diem (d.1963) on becoming president of Vietnam, 1954.

The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) German dictator.

For if the trumpet give an uncertain should, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Saint Paul (3-67) Apostle to the Gentitles.

I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) founder of the People’s Republic of China.

In Poland everyone is a leader.
Lech Walesa (b.1943) polish Solidarity leaders.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!.
Poulengey, Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus (c.55c 120) Roman historian of Emperor Galba.

So long as the people of any counter place their hopes of political salvation in leadership of any description, so long will disappointment attend them.
William Lovett (1800-1877) English Chartist leader.

“ She still seems to me in her own way a person born to command,” said Luce…
“ I wonder if anyone is born to obey,” said Isabel.
“ That may be why people command rather badly, that they have no suitable material to work on.”

Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.

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