A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.