Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who w alks far in advance of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries may pass before he is recognized as such and intelligently followed.

Obey me as I obey God and His Messenger; if I disobey them, then you should disobey me.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your love.

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.