Leadership Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
It is a fine thing to command, even if it be only a herd of cattle.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish author
To be Omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet
To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) British psychologist
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher
Only he can command who has the courage and initiative to disobey.
William McDougall (1871-1938) British psychologist
We were not born to sue, but to command.
King Richard, King Richard H William Shakespcare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
It is always a great mistake to command when you are not sure you will be obeyed.
Honore, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem (d. 1963) on becoming president of Vietnam, 1954
The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.
Adolf Hider (1889-1945) German dictator
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Saint Paul (3-67) Apostle to the Gentiles
I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) founder of the People’s Republic of China
In Poland everyone is a leader.
Lech Walesa (b. 1943) Polish Solidarity leader
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
Poulengey, Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus (c– 55-c. 120) Roman historian of Emperor Galba
so long as the people of any country place their hopes of political salvation in leadership of any description, so long will disappointment attend them.
William Lovett (1800-1877) English Chartist leader
