134 quotes found
“The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of s...”
“There are no perfect leaders.”
“I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.”
“Leaders grasp nettles.”
“With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God...”
“To lead the people walk behind them.”
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.”
“When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes i...”
“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!”
“A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.”
“As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work ...”
“The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.”
“To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).”
“Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.”
