Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
General George S. Patton, Jr.
Themes quotes
Leadership
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
Remember, there are no bad crews, only bad leaders.
Master Chief
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
Eddard Stark
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
Sun Tzu
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
William Pitt
Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.
Bill Clinton
A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Recalled on his death 3 Sep 70
Vince Lombardi
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight David Eisenhower
Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
I expect and demand your very best. Anything less, you should have joined the Air Force.
Captain Ramsey
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
General George S. Patton, Jr.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe Bryant
The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
Sun Tzu
Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, “Strike, if you will; but hear”.
Plutarch
In the military we always say we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
David Goggins
There are those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who don't know what the heck happened.
Laws
This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace.
Aragorn
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
Terry Pratchett
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
You know, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn’t you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!
Margaret Thatcher
Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
Patrick Lencioni
There are three things to remember about being a starship captain: Keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never abandon a member of your crew.
Captain Janeway
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.
Vince Lombardi
Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
Abraham Lincoln
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
Sun Tzu
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty,and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and its Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
Winston Churchill
It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
Margaret Thatcher
There’s a difference between us. You think the people of this land exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.
William Wallace
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
I want you to become the protector of Rome after I die. I will empower you to one end alone; to give power back to the people of Rome and end the corruption it has crippled. Would you accept this great honor that I have offered?
Emperor
Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady, and measured, and well-informed.
Michelle Obama
The first qualification in a general is a cool head – that is, a head which receives accurate impressions, and estimates things and objects at their real value. He must not allow himself to be elated by good news, or depressed by bad.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare – I have no use for him, either.
Sophocles
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. Antigone
Sophocles