leadership Quotes

“If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:government people leadership

“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.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

topic:change way leadership

“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

topic:action opinion leadership

“What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

topic:need people leadership

“a leader . . . is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.”

― Anatole France, Penguin Island

topic:danger leadership

“He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his followers to keep up.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:power leadership

“I wanted first of all to tell the people that I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had became a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:leadership ambition

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