Maxims of Leadership and Command

  •  Learn to obey before you command. - Solon

  •  Respect yourself and others will respect you - Confucius

  •  The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm - Confucius

  •  An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led  by a deer - Philip of Macedon

  •  He that ruleth over men must be just. - 11 Sam. 23

  •  Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. - Phaedrus

  •  Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. - James 1:19

  •  The wise man, before he speaks, will consider well what he speaks, to whom he speaks, and where and when.   - St. Ambrose 

  •  You may pardon much to others, nothing to yourself. -  Ausonius

  •  Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader. - Tacitus

  •  Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson

  •  Never to repent and never to reproach others, these are the first steps to wisdom. - Diderot

  •  Impossible is a word that I never utter. - Colin d'Harleville

  •  Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.  -  Thomas Jefferson

  •  There are no bad regiments - only bad colonels. - Napoleon Bonaparte

  •  Correction does much but encouragement does more.  Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. - Goethe

  •  To the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible because it seems so. - Sir Walter Scott

  •  This world belongs to the energetic. - Emerson

  •  The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. - Conde di Cavour

  •  Death is light as a feather; duty, heavy as a mountain. - Emperor Meiji of Japan

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