Quotes About Leadership

Sheep don't need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.

If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.