The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are quite enough sheep already - be a shepherd: be somebody who's bold and who leads.
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to recognize his voice, to follow him, faithfully and with full awareness, on the pastures of eternal life.
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.