Leadership Quotes

What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.

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"He was born for command."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"He was a perfect soldier from the beginning."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"Ender was going to be the greatest commander in history."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it"
HAL 9000
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"The unsullied will not break."
Daenerys Targaryen
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"You're a leader. Leaders don't get comfortable."
Graff
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"A leader must not be visible."
Graff
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"The test of leadership is not in the battles won but in the lives not squandered."
Thufir Hawat
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"I choose to stay here and finish the mission."
Mark Watney
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"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that moment I also love him."
Ender Wiggin
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"Control of the battle is the key to victory."
Graff
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"The future belongs to those who can bridge worlds"
Genly Ai
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"The problem of leadership is inevitably a problem of inadequate tools."
Thufir Hawat
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"The way to win is to find the enemy's weakness and exploit it."
Mazer Rackham
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"He is too much a leader. Even the older boys respect him."
Graff
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"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."
HAL 9000
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"I've got to be the one who gives the orders. I've got to be the boss."
Ender Wiggin
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"He's a good little soldier."
Graff
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"I am the son of a Duke. I must be a Duke."
Paul Atreides
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"A military genius must be ruthless."
Mazer Rackham
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"To suspect the best, to speak of it, to prepare it, to confirm it is the art of the politician"
Thufir Hawat
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"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."
HAL 9000
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"I'm the commander of this mission now."
Mark Watney
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"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The other children feared him, but they followed him."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"A leader takes responsibility for their commands."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The king keeps his throne by knowing how to move like water"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
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"A great man doesn't seek power; power seeks him"
Thufir Hawat
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Zarniwoop
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"The dragon has never had a larger following"
Daenerys Targaryen