A true leader leads by empowering not by enslaving.

A leader is solution oriented and a philosopher is problem oriented.

You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also be served.

Don't let your constituency capture you.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his actions.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.