leadership Quotes

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.