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Leadership does not mean domination.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Speech on Leadership in Speeches Delivered on Various Occasions, May 1957-December 1959 (1960), p. 138
- Power
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1951
- Decisions
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt1778–1830“A Farewell to Essay-Writing” (March 1828)
Don’t give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be.
Frank Herbert1920–1986Dune Genesis (1980)
- Power
It is the law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long…
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Journey to the East (1932)
To be a leader means to be able to move masses.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
Grace Hopper1906–1992The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906An Enemy of the People (1882), Act I, spoken by BillingIn context
- Responsibility
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
John Irvingborn 1942Until I Find You (2005), ch. 25, p. 493
- Decisions
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
Stonewall Jackson1824–1863To Col. Sam Fulkerson, who reported on the weariness of their troops and suggested that they should be given an hour or so to rest from a forced march in the night. (24 May 1862); as quoted in Mighty Stonewall (1957) by Frank E. Vandiver, p. 250
- War & Peace
Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.
Henry James1843–1916The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XVI
- Decisions
- Honor
Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 20:26–28 (KJV)In context
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Address at Stanford University (2005)
- Decisions
- Life & Death
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXX
- Education