Leadership Quotes and Passages

These are some of the leadership quotes that could inspire and aspire us to be a leader and to be a good, professional and successful leader.

1.  If you want some ham, you gotta go into the smoke house. – Huey Long

2.  Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. – Frederick B. Wilcox

3.  The halls of fame are open wide; they are always full. Some go in by the door called “pushed” and some by the door called “pull”. – Stanley Baldwin

4.  He who would eat the fruit must climb the tree. – Scottish Proverb

5. Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6.  If you miss seven balls out of ten, you’re batting three hundred and that’s good enough for the Hall of Fame. – Water B. Wriston

7.  Stow this talk. Care killed a Cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons. -  Long John Silver

8.  Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. – Benjamin Disraeli

9. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig. -  Paul Dickinson

10. Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says “Go” and a leader says “Let’s go”. – E.M. Kelly

11. Any fool can keep a rule. God gave him a brain to know when to break the rule. – Willard W. Scott

12.  A democracy cannot follow a leader unless he is dramatized. A man to be a hero must not content himself heroic virtues and anonymous action. He must talk and explain as he acts drama. – William Allen White

13.  Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reverse so that people are never quite sure if they really know you. – Michael Korda

14. You’ve got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up. – Ronald Regan

15. The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty steps in advance; but if he is a thousand steps in front of them, they do not see and do not follow him. – George Brandes

16.  If you act like an ass, don’t get insulted if people ride you. – Yiddish Proverb

17. Little things affect little minds. – Benjamin Disraeli

Those passages and quotations is from the book indicated below. This blog aims only to share this to everyone because it captured my attention and made me interest. Hoping that, some readers also can learned something about this.

    

From the Book  A Career Guide for Job-Seekers and Potential Leaders