Leadership Quotes

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

30104 quotes

S
"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy."
Snowball
N
"All our power comes from the gun."
Napoleon
J
"We ought to have a chief to decide things."
Jack Merridew
R
"I'll be chief."
Ralph
S
"He's a proper Chief, is Ralph. He knows how to treat people."
Simon
M
"He had come out equipped with moral ideas of some sort."
Marlow
T
"You can't judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man."
The Russian Trader
M
"A voice! a voice! It rang deep to the very last."
Marlow
S
"Some pigs are destined by nature to be leaders of the rest"
Squealer
V
"We must be vigilant, for evil never rests."
Van Helsing
M
"Kurtz was a remarkable man."
Marlow
M
"What was he? Words could not express the effect of his presence."
Marlow
M
"I felt a strange sense of responsibility."
Marlow
M
"Words fail me when I try to explain his influence."
Marlow
O
"Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"
Old Major
S
"The pigs are naturally clever and fit to govern."
Squealer
R
"The rules! The rules!"
Ralph
P
"We should make rules about using the conch."
Piggy
R
"We must have discipline or we'll go mad."
Ralph
M
"He had come out equipped with moral ideas"
Marlow
M
"The man filled the whole of my vision"
Marlow
M
"He was a very remarkable person"
Marlow
J
"I ought to be chief, because I'm chapter chorister and head boy."
Jack Merridew
R
"As long as I'm chief, I'll decide things."
Ralph
J
"We must not shrink from our duty."
Jonathan Harker
R
"The rules! The rules!"
Ralph
R
"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages."
Ralph
J
"At least we're on the same side."
Jack Merridew
R
"Build a fire!"
Ralph
J
"Seems we ought to have a chief to decide things."
Jack Merridew