Quotes About Leadership

A great leader must share the hardships of his followers, of his soldiers, of his subjects. That is how he wins their respect. Great leaders do not complain. Not ever.

He had discovered early in his military career that if one has an effective and experienced officer above, coupled with effective and experienced soldiers below, one need do, and know, nothing.

Strong leaders might like it when someone brings 'em a better idea, but weak ones never do.

Seems giving little men big men's shoes doesn't make 'em big. Just makes 'em trip over.

Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

I am sure you understand that a reputation for ruthlessness can be useful. A great ruler, especially one of as wide and various a country as Gurkhul, must first be feared. He would desire to be loved also, but that is a luxury. Fear is essential. Whatever you may have heard, Uthman is neither a man of peace, nor of war. He is a man of… what would be your word? Necessity. He is a man of the right tool at the right time.

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to half-wits. A great leader puts others before himself. You would be surprised how acting so makes it easier to bear one's own troubles. In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.

An excessive and a brutal act, but better to act with too much force than too little. Better to be held in fear, than in contempt... There is no place for sentiment in politics.

Well don't just hit 'em, you lazy bastards!" he shouted in a broken voice. "Pull 'em!

The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.

Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

The worst?" Dogman stared at him. "You sure? What about if Bethod does come, and his Carls kick your wall over like a pile o' turds and kill every last one of us?" Crummock's brow furrowed. He frowned down at the ground. He squinted up at the clouds. "True," he said, breaking out in a smile. "That is worse. You got a fast mind, lad.

People love the idea of freedom but, in my experience, there is only so much they can be trusted with. You saw what Judge did with it. Take it far enough, freedom becomes chaos. The voice of the people… is just noise. It is the blather of the lunatics in the madhouse. It is the squeal of the pigs in the slaughterhouse. It is a choir of morons. Most of them don't even know what they want, let alone how to get it. They need someone to tell them what to do.

In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.

Kings needs cool tempers.

We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail.

He blinked at her. "How do I tell who the ringleaders are?" "They'll be the ones you're pointing at.

First it is done to us, then we do it to others, then we order it done. Such is the way of things.

Your Majesty, we are not here to set right all the world's wrongs.' Orso stared back at him. 'What are we here for, then?' Bayaz neither smiled nor frowned. 'To ensure that we benefit from them.

Last Argument of Kings." Inscribed on his cannons by Louis XIV

In the end, no matter what they say, most folk want a path to follow. Someone to tell 'em it'll all be fine. Someone to tell 'em what to do.

The pilot of a foundering vessel, perhaps, looking to his captain, silently asking if they really did intend to go down with the ship. Perhaps that's why captains do go down with their ships. No better ideas.

But then getting warriors to fight has always been easy. It's stopping the bastards that's the tougher trick.

My father always used to say, you want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.