leadership Quotes

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Someone who wants to be a good ruler must first have learned to be ruled.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory... ...

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the... ...

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

People are more easily influenced by fear than by respect.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule... ...

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.