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.
~ Indira Gandhi
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.
~ Woodrow Wilson
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.
~ Charles Yost
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
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
~ Lister Sinclair
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
~ Albert Camus
A leader is a dealer in hope.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
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).
~ Marya Mannes
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
~ Jan Masaryk
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.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
~ Hindu Proverb
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.
~ Daniel Defoe
Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important.
~ Korean Proverb
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
~ Winston Churchill
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
~ Arthur Balfour
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.
~ Clement Attlee
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.
~ Irving Layton
Every woman's man and every man's woman.
~ Julius Caesar
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
~ Howard Schultz
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
~ Ann Coulter
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
~ Helen Thomas
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
~ Tom Peters
With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.
~ Isaac Herzog
I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.
~ Collin C. Peterson
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
~ Norman Borlaug
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
~ John C. Maxwell
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
~ Robert Jarvik
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
~ Ralph Nader
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
~ Bo Bennett
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
~ Warren Bennis
Leaders grasp nettles.
~ David Ogilvy
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
