I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

The right man comes at the right time.

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.