Sophocles on leadership

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Ah, son, may you prove luckier than your father, but in all else like him. Then you would not prove base.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

George S. Patton1885–1945Often credited to Thomas Paine

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger1923–2023

Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren’t.

Margaret Thatcher1925–2013