Quotes about Leadership

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Transformed people transform people.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

Success is not success without a successor.

In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

told them that you have to earn the right to be heard. People won't just follow you because you say so. They will only follow you when you have endured, developed, grown, and sometimes suffered.