Quotes About Leadership

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;

It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter'd in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King;

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

No, my good lord, banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins, but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company. Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness.

Fit to govern? No, not fit to live.

There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

William Shakespeare

Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child!

in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.

What means this shouting? I do fear, the people Choose Caesar for their king.

And Caesar shall go forth.

Of France and England, did this king succeed; Whose state so many had the managing. That they lost France and made his England bleed.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.

No donde come, sino donde es comido. Cierta asamblea de gusanos políticos está ahora con él. El gusano es el único emperador de la dieta; nosotros cebamos a todos los demás animales para engordarnos, y nos engordamos a nosotros mismos para cebar a los gusanos. El rey gordo y escuálido mendigo no son más que servicios distintos, dos platos, pero de una misma mesa; he aquí el fin de todo.

I have learn'd that fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay; Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary. Then fiery expedition be my wing, Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king! Go, muster men. My counsel is my shield. We must be brief when traitors brave the field.