Top Leaders Quotes

It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have...

Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.

With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's...

To lead the people walk behind them.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it d...

I've got to follow them - I am their leader.

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Follow me if I advance kill me if I retreat revenge me if I die!

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is...

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means...

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.