Leadership Quote # 34

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

By Polybius

Leadership Quote # 33

Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.

By Thomas Carlyle

Leadership Quote # 32

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

By Friedrich Nietzsche

Leadership Quote # 31

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

By Philip Armour

Leadership Quote # 30

What you cannot enforce / Do not command.

By Sophocles

Leadership Quote # 29

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

By Abraham Lincoln

Leadership Quote # 28

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Leadership Quote # 28

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

By Ovid

Leadership Quote # 27

No man can stand on top because he is put there.

By H. H. Vreeland

Leadership Quote # 25

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

By Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership Quote # 24

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

By Solon

Leadership Quote # 23

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

By Edmund Spenser

Leadership Quote # 22

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.

By James Thomas

Leadership Quote # 21

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

By Cornelius Nepos

Leadership Quote # 20

A bold onset is half the battle.

By Giuseppe Garibaldi

Leadership Quote # 19

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

By Publius Syrus

Leadership Quote # 18

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

By Woodrow Wilson

Leadership Quote # 17

I light my candle from their torches.

By Robert Burton

Leadership Quote # 16

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.

By Henry W. Longfellow

Leadership Quote # 15

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

By Horace