LEADERSHIP QUOTES

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Harold R. McAlindon (also attributed to Emerson and others)

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

I must follow them for I am their leader. Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. Johan

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. Gene

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. V. Cousin

The real leader has no need to lead– he is content to point the way. Henry Miller

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. Chinese Proverb

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them…Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. Baltasar Gracián

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. Noah Porter

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. (from Christian Leadership World)from Christian Leadership World

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus

A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte