"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated."
— Dag Hammarskjöld
"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch."
— Jesus Christ
"All Leadership is influence."
— John C. Maxwell
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
— Winston Churchil
"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
"If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."
— G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
— Henry Kissinger
"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
— Peter Drucker
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
— John Buchan
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."
— General Douglas MacArthur
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."
— General Colin Powell
"Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.."
— Eric Shinseki
"I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be."
— Warren Bennis
"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
— Harry Truman
"Leadership is intentional influence."
— Michael McKinney
"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."
— Gary Wills
“"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
— Henry Peter Brougham
"A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction."
— J. Robert Clinton
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."
— Sam Rayburn