Quotes About Leadership

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

The newest pups always blame the elders of the pack.

Lord Rand, Nynaeve snorted. That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.

Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing.

It was easier to ask forgiveness, than permission.

When an officer runs by with a look like that on his face, you don't ask if he needs help. You just follow!

He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he's nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command,and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.

Keep fighting, you daughters and sons of goats!" Birgitte yelled, loosing arrows at the mercenaries. "I might be dead, but I'm still your bloody commander, and you will obey orders!

Limping to the foot of the bed, he lowered himself into the chest there and laid Callandor across his knees, bloody hands resting on the glowing blade. With that in his hands, even one of the Forsaken would fear him. In a moment he would send for Moiraine to Heal his wounds. In a moment he would speak to the Aiel outside, and become the Dragon Reborn again. But for now, he only wanted to sit, and remember a shepherd named Rand al'Thor.

You are a fine judge of character, child. You must have done well as the Wisdom of your village. It was Laras who went to Sheriam and demanded to know how long you three are to be kept to the dirtiest and hardest work, without a turn at lighter. She said she would not be a party to breaking any woman's health or spirit, no matter what I said. A fine judge of character, child.

Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm.

Sometimes, it was difficult to tell Nynaeve leading from Nynaeve bullying.

most mistakes made by rulers came from not knowing history; they acted in ignorance of the mistakes others had made before them.

Callandor shone in his fist until it seemed he carried the sun. Dimly within him, fluttering like a candle flame in a storm, was the surety that holding Callandor, he could do anything. Anything.

The mighty tell the lesser to dig in the mud and keep their own hands clean.

Forward the Golden Crane!

Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?

They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him.

It is better to be the hammer than the nail.

Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her "place" as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers.

Looking a queen is not enough, her mother had told her often, but a fine mind, a keen grasp of affairs, and a brave heart will go for nothing if people do not see you as a queen.

explain decisions as seldom as possible; the more often you explained, the more explanations were necessary, until they were all you had time for.