Leadership Quotes

"The crowd doesn't like to think for itself; it prefers leaders who think for them."

"The individual means nothing when the collective is weak."

"A great leader does not follow public opinion; he shapes it."

"The essence of leadership is the ability to inspire sacrifice."

"The task of the party is to serve as a bridge between the intelligentsia and the working class."

"Dead Bolshevism walks when the party forgets to think and simply obeys."

"Self-criticism is the greatest tool of revolutionary progress."

"The intellectuals must serve the interests of the working class."

"The masses create history; we merely record and guide it."

"Unity of action with diversity of thought is the mark of a strong movement."

"In the final analysis, it is not what you do for your people that counts, but what you have taught them to do for themselves."

"Lead and inspire people. Clean up afterward."

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in their leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves."

"Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for an idea you believe in but respect enough to listen to other ideas."

"The greatest leaders are not remembered for the speeches they delivered or the monuments they built, but for how they changed hearts."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

"Wars are not won by evacuations."

"The greatest quality of leadership is to raise the bar by your own example."

"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way"

"At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better"

"The greatest leaders are willing to suffer more than they ask others to suffer"

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war."

"When evil men plot, good men must plan."

"Great power has come to those who thought in terms of everybody."

"Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in the spirit of caring for its people than the constant omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."