Quotes About Independence

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Popularity is not leadership.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

You shouldn't blindly accept a leader's advice. You've got to question leaders on occasion.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'