Leadership Quotes

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

30104 quotes

H
"I offer you my hand."
Hans
P
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
Plato
P
"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."
Plato
T
"I inspire through example."
Timmy
H
"I was always willing to follow her lead."
Hans
S
"The only noble thing about being superior to another person is that one uses it for the good of others."
Socrates
E
"Counsel is what I offer, not command. The choice must be yours alone."
Elrond
E
"To lead is not to command, but to guide and to listen."
Elrond
E
"A true leader serves those they lead, not the reverse."
Elrond
T
"Leadership is about lifting others up."
Timmy
A
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
Aristotle
A
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
Aristotle
P
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
Plato
P
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
Plato
H
"A kingdom needs a strong leader."
Hans
H
"A kingdom requires balance and order."
Hans
H
"A kingdom needs order and stability."
Hans
H
"A true prince thinks of his people first."
Hans
H
"A kingdom thrives when its people are united."
Hans
T
"Leadership is showing others what's possible."
Tiffany
E
"To counsel is not to command."
Elrond
E
"To rule is to serve those over whom you rule."
Elrond
T
"I believe that we all have something valuable to contribute."
Timmy
A
"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
Aristotle
A
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
Aristotle
A
"In making a decision of merely personal importance, I should have consulted only my own wishes; but in a case involving the welfare of a nation, I owed it to the nation to let other considerations prevail."
Aristotle
P
"Until philosophers rule as kings or kings learn the love of wisdom, cities will never have rest from evils."
Plato
P
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
Plato
F
"Leadership is just being the loudest person in the room."
Frank Jr.
F
"Leadership is accepting blame and taking credit."
Frank Jr.