Quotes About Leadership

A general is powerless without an army.An army is directionless without a general.To win battles a general and an army need each other.

Leading fools is like leading no one.Following a fool is like following no one.The wise make the best leaders and followers.

You cannot lead those who do not want to follow.

It is not important who the leader is. It's important what and where he/she leads one to.

Be a leader with exceptional qualities, not deceptive qualities".

You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.

When you lead the wise, walk behind them.When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them.When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them.

The greatest leaders are the greatest servants.

Following the herd reduces you to a cow.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf see and be blind.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Ordinary leaders move mounds, good leaders move hills, but great leaders move mountains.

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.

To lead the people walk behind them.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

I've got to follow them - I am their leader.

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

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.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!

If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!

Follow me if I advance kill me if I retreat revenge me if I die!

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.