Quotes on
Leadership
He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of
challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(from Christian Leadership World)
Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do
and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
(from Big Dog's Quotes)
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the
skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness,
his weak points.
Horace
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Henry W. Longfellow
I light my candle from their torches.
Robert Burton
Leadership does not always wear the harness of
compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he
ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who
is not better than the governed.
Publius Syrus
A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him
who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Cornelius Nepos
To be a great leader and so always master of the
situation, one must of necessity have been a great
thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a
goose's egg.
James Thomas
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to
find the means to carry it out.
Napoleon Bonaparte
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
H. H. Vreeland
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Ovid
It is impossible to imagine anything which better
becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca
No man is good enough to govern another
man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
What you cannot enforce /
Do not command.
Sophocles
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon
his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to
select the right man for the right place.
Philip Armour
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things
is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule
himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere
nescit.)
Latin Proverb
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first
moved to convince himself.
Thomas Carlyle
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also
knows when victory is impossible.
Polybius
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