"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."

(Thomas Fuller)
(1608 – 16 August 1661, English churchman and historian)

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

(Proverbs 29:18)

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

(Greek Proverb)

"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."

(John Churton Collins)
(1848 – 1908, English literary critic)

"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."

(General Douglas MacAuthur)

"God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful."

(Mother Theresa)

"A bold onset is half the battle."

(Giuseppe Garibaldi)
(Italian freedom fighter: 1807 - 1882)

"A bold onset is half the battle."

(Giuseppe Garibaldi)

"An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions."

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

"Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

(Publilius Syrus)
(Latin writer, 1st century BC)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

(Martin Luther King, Jr) (from Christian Leadership World)

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

(Earl Wilson)

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

(Al Bernstein)

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

(Mark Twain)

"Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts."

(Unknown)

"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."

(Roger Babson)

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

(Woody Allen)

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

(General George S. Patton)

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

(Sir Winston Churchill)

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

(Warren Buffett)

"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

(Bob Dylan)

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

(Dale Carnegie)

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

(Harold R McAlindon)

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

(Theodore Roosevelt)

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."

(Robert Half)

"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after."

(Lord Byron)

(from a napkin at Journees de la Presse, hotel Méridien Montparnasse, Paris, France)

"Managers are born on the job. Leaders are born when they are seven."

(Gert Van Mol)

"He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander."

(Aristotle)

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

(Thomas Carlyle)

"A leader is a deal in hope."

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

"The real leader has no need to lead-- he is content to point the way."

(Henry Miller)

"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

(Dwight D. Eisenhower)

"The whole thing here is the organization. Whatever we accomplish belongs to our entire group, a tribute to our combined effort."

(Walt Disney)

"I have a blind faith in the policy that quality, tempered with good judgment and showmanship, will win out against all odds."

(Walt Disney)

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work it until it's done and done right."

(Walt Disney)

"You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream."

(Walt Disney)

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

(Abraham Lincoln)

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion."

(Theodore Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame)

"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."

(Admiral Grace Hopper)

"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such."

(Andre Maurois)

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

(Hubert H. Humphrey)

"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way."

(Henry Miller)

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

(John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. economist “The Age of Uncertainty”)

"It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone."

(Coco Chanel)

"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."

(Lewis H. Lapham)

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

(Bishop Desmond Tutu)

There is no such thing as a perfect leader...

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

(Liu Shao-ch'i)

People ask the difference...

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

(Theodore Roosevelt)

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

(Katharine Hepburn)