1. An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.-Chinese Proverb
2. Even the largest army is nothing without a good general.-Afghan (on leadership)
3. He that cannot obey, cannot command.-Benjamin Franklin
4. He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.-George Eliot
5. The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.-Benjamin Franklin
6. The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail.-John Wycliffe
7. The master of the people is their servant.-Yemeni (on leadership)
8. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Quincy Adams
9. The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.-Ronald Reagan
10. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.-Dwight D. Eisenhower
11. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.-John C. Maxwell
12. 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
13. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.-Max Lucado
14. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.-Warren Bennis
15. You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.-Dwight Eisenhower
16. A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.-Brandon Sanderson
17. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.-Woodrow Wilson
18. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.-John Buchan
19. A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair.-Iranian (on leadership)
20. A great one must have a long heart.-Ethiopian (on leadership)
21. A ruler must sometimes humor as well as command.-unknown
22. Great chiefs prove their worthiness.-Seneca Proverb
23. If the townspeople are happy, look to the chief.-Liberian (on leadership)
24. If you can’t serve, you can’t rule.-Bulgarian (on leadership)
25. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.-Desiderius Erasmus
26. When we think we lead, we are most led.-Lord Byron
27. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.-Eleanor Roosevelt
28. Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.-General Douglas MacArthur
29. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.-George Patton