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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann, cited New York Herald Tribune 14th April 1945
You must teach people to love their leader. Idi Amin, former dictator of Uganda
We need a leader who’s prepared to let his dogs off the leash. House of Cards I II III IV ***** BBC 1990
Who would be a leader in this wicked world? ibid. Francis
We need to wake up and find out what freedom is all about. And start asking some very serious questions about who is leading us and where are they taking the human family. We are in serious trouble on this Earth. And the people who are guiding the destiny of this world are profoundly evil. Their agenda is so profoundly evil most men are not even able to perceive it. Jordan Maxwell, Forbidden Knowledge
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. The advancement of learning depends on community leadership for financial and political support and the products of that learning, in turn, are essential to the leadership's hopes for continued progress and prosperity ... This link between leadership and learning is not only essential at the community level, it is even more indispensable in world affairs. Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of a city or a company, but they can, if allowed to prevail in foreign policy, handicap this country’s security. In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of frustrations and irritations, America’s leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason, or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem. John F Kennedy, remarks prepared for Trade Mart Dallas 22nd November 1963 but not delivered
The people deserve strong leadership, someone to protect them. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Paradise Lost s4e12, Admiral Leyton
I don’t think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Richard Nixon
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. Henry Kissinger, The End of the Road, 1982
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. Henry A Kissinger
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. Muammar al-Gaddafi
I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect. Tupac Shakur
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. Arnold H Glasow
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. Theodore Roosevelt
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. Bertolt Brecht
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus. Martin Luther King
We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity. Martin Luther King
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. Nelson Mandela
Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. General George S Patton
Example is leadership. Albert Schweitzer
You lead by example. Allan Border: Cricket’s Greatest, Sky 2015
‘I want you to do something for me,’ she said, and unexpectedly laughed. ‘I want,’ she said, and laughed again. She put her hand over her mouth and said with a straight face, ‘I want you to take me to your leader.’ Douglas Adams, Life, The Universe and Everything, 1982
If it’s not too much of a cliché, take me to your leader. If it is too much of a cliché, take me anyway. Matthew Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, 2008
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. John Updike
And when we think we lead, we are most led. Lord Byron
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair, Mail on Sunday 2nd October 1994
We deserve our leaders. David Halpin, The Vortex Sucks Ever Louder, Alternative View II conference 31st May 2009
Where wilt thou lead me? William Shakespeare, Hamlet I v 1, Hamlet to Ghost
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. Admiral Arleigh Burke, Naval Leadership: Voices of Experience by Karel Montor p18, 1998
The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible. ibid.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie, cited Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success by Neal Whitten p63, 1995
Successful leaders don’t start out asking, ‘What do I want to do?’ They ask, ‘What needs to be done?’ Then they ask, ‘Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?’ They don’t tackle things they aren’t good at. They make sure other necessities get done, but not by them. Successful leaders make sure that they succeed! They are not afraid of strength in others. Andrew Carnegie wanted to put on his gravestone, ‘Here lies a man who knew how to put into his service more able men than he was himself.’ Peter Drucker, cited What Needs to be Done
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements 1951