Quotes About Leadership

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.

a man with as dirty a record as his!… This is the sort of man that poses as a leader of the people! And successfully, too! Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

Let's go, Cormoran," said Robin. She took his arm, and to her great relief and surprise he came along meekly. It reminded her of leading the enormous Clydesdale her uncle had kept on his farm.

Why the fuck, he asked himself, as he limped towards Mile End Park the following morning, was he, the senior partner and founder of the firm, having to stake out a protest march on a hot Saturday morning, when he had three employees and a knackered leg?

Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath. When the Wolf walks by you - you will remember.

I learned a lesson I never had as a politician: that we cannot properly lead those with whom we have not shared suffering.

learned a lesson I never had as a politician: that we cannot properly lead those with whom we have not shared

The higher the station of an individual within any organization, the greater the tendency to hew to the company line

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

Good leaders must first become good servants.

It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive.

There are indications that the Constitution did not contemplate that the title Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy will constitute him also Commander-in-Chief of the country, its industries and its inhabitants. He has no monopoly of "war powers," whatever they are.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Nelson Mandela is an iconic figure throughout the world. A gifted Statesman,

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason