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Quotes About Leadership

A general is powerless without an army.An army is directionless without a general.To win battles a general and an army need each other.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Leading fools is like leading no one.Following a fool is like following no one.The wise make the best leaders and followers.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot lead those who do not want to follow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not important who the leader is. It's important what and where he/she leads one to.
~ Amit Abraham
Be a leader with exceptional qualities, not deceptive qualities".
~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa
You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you lead the wise, walk behind them.When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them.When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest leaders are the greatest servants.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Following the herd reduces you to a cow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
He who would rule must hear and be deaf see and be blind.
~ German proverb
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
~ Robert Lindner
Ordinary leaders move mounds, good leaders move hills, but great leaders move mountains.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
~ William Hazlitt
To lead the people walk behind them.
~ Lao-Tzu
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
~ Indira Gandhi
I've got to follow them - I am their leader.
~ Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
~ Charles Yost
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
~ Charles de Gaulle
If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!
~ La Rochefoucauld
If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!
~ Benito Mussolini
Follow me if I advance kill me if I retreat revenge me if I die!
~ Ngo Dinh Diem
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
~ Hindu proverb
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
~ Walter Cronkite