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“We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.”

People Men Nations Leader Fate He Man Depends Army Peril Arbiter

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.”

Men Made Helping Stuff Leader Moral Knowing He Man Helping Others Aliens Resentment No Fear Hail Aggressiveness

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.”

Men Self Spirit Desire Leader Lord Sacrifice Position He Man Ready Circumstances Holy Safe Pressure Presses Humble Gentle Holy Spirit Heritage Ambitious Inward Be Humble True Leader

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.”

Knows Men Giving Values Individual Leadership Leader Know How Groups He Man Draws Function Regard Management Initiative Recognizing Defining

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.”

Men Want Should Trying Firsts Education Leader Moral Teach Practice He Man Train Superiors Educate Preaching Educating Others

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.”

Men Persons Faces Order Numbers Leader Cases He Man Ready Mass Victim Graves Execution Fifteen Squad Kneeling

Author:Paul Blobel

“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.”

Thinking Men War Ends Facts Existence Leader Enemy He Man Essentials Army Slavery Unions Careful Civil War Rebellion Be Careful Trusted Hostile Traitor

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief”

Men Said Asks Animal Leader He Man Chiefs Managers Guru Herds Horde

Author:Ernest Becker

“When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.”

Men Giving Looks Littles Waiting Leader Cutting He Man Hair Office Shops Business Leaders Barbers Hair Cut Barber Shop

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist, the religious leader, the poet, who explains man to himself. The man of action alone or the man of contemplation alone will not be enough; these two qualities together are required.”

Men Should Two Enough Action Together Artist Religious Quality Leader He Man Poet Personality Insight Managers Contemplation Realistic Robust Religious Leaders

Author:David Lilienthal

“The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.”

Men Found Individual Race Leader He Man Highest Fellows Mediocre Confined Irresponsible Traitor

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.”

Men Giving Leader He Man Parasites

Book:The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons