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The Marquis de V... - whose falsetto voice and little watery eyes I have always detested - was saying to me with a wicked smile: 'Then again, the master gymnast might break his neck at any moment. What he is doing now is very dangerous, my dear, and the pleasure you take in his performance is the little frisson that danger affords you. Wouldn't it be thrilling, if his sweaty hand failed to grip the bar? The velocity acquired by his rotation about the bar would break his spine quite cleanly, and perhaps a little of the cervical matter might spurt out as far as this! It would be most sensational, and you would have a rare emotion to add to the field of your experience - for you collect emotions, don't you? What a pretty stew of terrors that man in tights stirs up in us!'Admit that you almost wish that he will fall! Me too. Many others in the auditorium are in the same state of attention and anguish. That is the horrible instinct of a crowd confronted with a spectacle which awakens in it the ideas of lust and death. Those two agreeable companions always travel together! Take it from me that at the very same moment - see, the man is now holding on to the bar by his fingertips alone - at the very same moment, a good number of the women in these boxes are ardently lusting after that man, not so much for his beauty as for the danger he courts.'The voice subtly changed its tone, suddenly becoming more interested. 'You have singularly pale eyes this evening, my dear Freneuse. You ought to give up bromides and take valerian instead. You have a charming and curious soul, but you must take command of its changes. You are too ardently and too obviously covetous, this evening, of the death - or at least the fall - of that man.'I did not reply. The Marquis de V... was quite right. The madness of murder had taken hold of me again; the spectacle had me in its hallucinatory grip. Straitened by a penetrating and delirious anguish, I yearned for that man to fall.There are appalling depths of cruelty within me.
— Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life.
— V.V. Rao
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.
— Bernard Cornwell, Sword Song
Ugh! I absolutely hate lust. Hate. It. Every fiber of my being knows he’s not a good person, yet my body doesn't seem to give a shit at all.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
It's just sexual tension. Hardcore, animalistic, lick his body all over, sexual tension. - Norah
— Angela Richardson, Pieces of Truth
I slept with her because she was hot and wanted me. Maybe we're dealing with the supernatural, but I'm still human.
— Richelle Mead, Gameboard of the Gods
The way he looked me up and down made a part of me burn with desire. Fire and electricity. Flames and sparks. Needing and wanting. Tempting temptation.
— Angela Richardson, Pieces of Truth
Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man.
— Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
Bond had taken her to the station and had kissed her once hard on the lips and had gone away. It hadn't been love, but a quotation had come into Bond's mind as his cab moved out of Pennsylvania station: 'Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust.
— Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
As I looked into his eyes, trying to see into the depths of that darkness, it hit me. It was subtle, but it hit me. The rush of attraction.
— Angela Richardson, Pieces of Truth
You smell salty," he says. "Like the ocean." He leans closer to me and licks up the side of my face. "You taste salty too. Maybe I should grab a bottle of tequila and we should have some fun." He moves his eyebrows up and down. "What do you say? We'll do some shots and I'll lick you all over.
— Jillian Dodd, Stalk Me
Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.
— Thomas Brooks
I wanted desperately to get all hot and sweaty with this guy, but I knew from experience that hormones affected my sensibilities like alcohol or pot. In the throes of passion I tend to vow my eternal love to a penis I might use and abuse, with little regard for the man connected to it. I'm trying to keep that habit.
— Susan Volland, Love and Meatballs
If the afternoon had been blue,there might have been less desire.
— Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Attraction is easily manufactured.
— Erica Goros
He stops rocking the cage. "Oh, come on, Callie. It won't be fun if we don't rock it. In fact, the more we rock it, the better it'll feel." His voice drops to a deep whisper. "We can rock it nice and slow or really, really fast."..."Do I have your permission to rock away and give you the ride of your life?" Why does it feel like he's secretly talking dirty to me? "Yeah, go ahead, rock it nice and hard," I say without thinking, then bite down on my lip as the dirty section of my brain catches up with me. Honestly, I didn't even know that side existed.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
She pushed my chest like she wanted me off of her, but her fingers had my shirt clutched in them and I knew she was full of shit. She wanted me.
— S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
Faster's always better, but you have to mind those curves. They're wicked. They can kill a man in a heartbeat.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
It was the sexual chemistry I wanted more of. It was electric. I'd forgotten what it was like to be with someone who excited you in every sense of the word, who thrilled and frightened you in equal measure.
— Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time
Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart.
— Karen Marie Moning, The Alpha Alternative: JZB Sex Scene
I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
— Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Books might be your passion but you can’t fuck a paperback.
— Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.
— Will Self, How the Dead Live
She watches Simon's profile as he drives, concentrating, but he keeps turning to her, and every time he does so, he is smiling. He doesn't seem to care, and she wonders if, actually, he wants to be caught. In some ways she does, because she knows, already, albeit crazily swiftly, that she wants more of this man, that once was never, ever going to be enough.
— Sarah Rayner, One Moment, One Morning
A loud, purposeful knock on the front door froze him in place with his fist over the fabric. “Hey, dude, it’s me. I brought you all four Bloodsport movies. Open up!” Jason’s voice filtered past the front door, and he and Violet flew apart like teenagers at a party raid. No way. This wasn’t happening. He had not just gotten cock-blocked by his best friend and partner, AKA the only living relative of the woman he’d very nearly stripped naked in his front hallway.
— Kimberly Kincaid, Love on the Line
I still couldn’t banish the image of the Quetzal Flower. In my mind, it merged with that of Priestess Eleuia: everything a man could desire or aspire to, a woman who would suck the marrow from your bones and still leave you smiling.
— Aliette de Bodard, Servant of the Underworld
She had to remember not to look at him when he smiled like that.
— Missy Lyons, Alien Promise
He walked towards me. My heart was pounding like a nineties warehouse rave.
— Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time
It was at times like this that one of those waves of bestiality ran through the mine, the sudden lust of the male that came over a miner when he met one of these girls on all fours, with her rear in the air and her buttocks busting out of her breeches.
— Émile Zola, Germinal
My soul longs for God, but a man is not just his soul, is he? Terrible to say, my clay lusts after the clay of nubile girl. To soothe my guilt, and please forgive my indelicacy, I have convinced myself that I seek to find God again in their arms and their unmentionable places.
— K.J. Bishop, The Etched City
... Melissa. Where are you planning to go?" His voice was nasally, shit, he knew I had no idea where to go. "Well if you didn't change the apartment I was staying in I would. I was going to stay in a hotel" "How will you do that without your purse, sweetcheeks?" he sounded so damn cocky. I wanted to hit him, somehow through the phone."Look, wait there, ill come down. We should talk anyway""I have nothing to say" I grumbled "I have plenty" and he hung up.
— Mercy Cortez, Jagged Edge
Let him lust for you until he has blue balls
— Sylvia Day, Bared to You
You look beautiful and fuckable
— Sylvia Day, Bared to You
Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.
— R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
Douglas’s fridge was a stainless-steel masterpiece. I’m not that into appliances or anything, but this one was nice and probably cost more than my last apartment. I had the strange desire to hug it every time I came into the kitchen.
— Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone
When they reached the stairs, he didn’t make her climb them herself. He picked her up in his arms and carried her to the big bathroom off their bedroom. He didn’t speak, his expression didn’t soften. But he was hard. His cock was like a poker, steely and hot against her hip. His eyes blazed with lust.
— Lora Leigh, Tempting the Beast
She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.
— Elise Valmorbida, The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories about Finding Love
. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.
— Robin Brande, Fat Cat
I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but swooned at my feet. It is too bad I don't have any medical treatises about. I'm sure I need read a paragraph or two, and you will become ravenous with lust and begin tearing my clothes off. (Dorian from "The Mad Earl's Bride")
— Loretta Chase, Three Weddings and a Kiss
This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.
— Émile Zola, La Curée
Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lipstick.
— Claire Cross, Double Trouble
They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
I tumbled into the taxi alone, closing the door closed with a dull thud before I could possibly change my mind. Not like this, I remember thinking. Whatever this thing is between us, it could only be tainted and cheapened by a semi-drunken encounter on the night of our first meeting. As the car pulled away I stared back at him. The thought that I might never see him again, that I might never know what it would feel like to be kissed by him, seemed unbearably cruel.At a crossroads, I had been faced with a choice: two possible versions of my future mapped out ahead of me. But I didn't feel like I had made any sort of decision. All I had done was run away.
— Catherine Sanderson, Petite Anglaise
It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
— Barry Lyga, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Love and lust aren’t always in sync. You can love someone, but not beready to have sex with them. Or you can meet someone random and end up jumping in all the way. There’s nothing wrong with either. You’ve waited this long, so wait until you’re really feelingit. If he’s The One, he’ll understand.
— Dorota Skrzypek, Sex, Life, & Hannah: Volume 3, Summer Season
The therapist, he thought, and it bothered him a lot more than it should have. After all, he had nothing permanent with Sophie. He just needed to touch her on a semiregular basis or he couldn't finish his sentences.
— Jennifer Crusie
They have never put it into words, they cannot; but each absence is a threat. They never felt this way in New York - they moved all over New York. Here each is afraid that one of the others will get into some terrible trouble before he is seen again, and before anyone can help him. It is the spirit of the people, the eyes which endlessly watch them, eyes which never meet their eyes. Something like lust, something like hatred, seems to hover in the air along the country roads, shifting like mist or steam, but always there, gripping the city streets like fog, making every corner a dangerous corner. They spend more of themselves, each day, than they can possibly afford, they are living beyond their means; they drop into bed each evening, exhausted, into an exhausting sleep. And no one can help them. The people who live here know how to do it - so it seems, anyway - but they cannot teach the secret. The secret can be learned only by watching, by emulating the models, by dangerous trial and possibly mortal error.
— James     Baldwin, Just Above My Head
You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.
— Emmanuel Aghado
Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?
— Flora Kidd, Passionate Choice
ShanTu said that we must set the soul free from the body and its lusts. Having thus got rid of the foolishness of the flesh, we shall be pure. While an admirable goal, the sisterhood has not found this practical. For whatever purpose, body and soul are joined. Denying one's bodily lusts is about as effective as prohibition, which is to say not effective at all.
— Susan  Cartwright, Wolf Dawn
Brian knows the affair is wrong. He's known from the moment Wendy first undressed in his office. But with her hot, wet tongue in his ear, and her taut, pink nipples straining against his starched white shirt, and with Mick Jagger's strident voice squawking about satisfaction on the tiny transistor radio, Brian's body refuses to obey.Instead of shoving Wendy out the door, he shoves her onto the unmade bed.
— Alison Lurie, The War Between the Tates
Yes, well”—he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately—“the burner phone we had accidentally fell out of the car, and someone accidentally backed over it. Because someone was in a rush after she accidentally alerted some skip tracers we were nearby when she accidentally used her abilities to move a light pole out of the road after she had accidentally backed into it.”“Someone better shut their mouth before I accidentally slam my fist into their teeth.” She punched his shoulder, and it was almost...playful.“Shut his mouth, fist into his teeth.”“Really? A grammar lesson?
— Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight
Just shut up and start sucking each other's faces already," Vida grumbled, leaning awkwardly against the stump. She would never admit it aloud, but I knew the burns on her back her eating her alive with pain. "I'm trying to make up for the sleep I lost when you started screeching at each other like cats in heat.""Miss Vida," Liam said, "has anyone ever told you that you are positively the whipped cream on the sundae of life?"She glared at him. "Anyone ever told you your head is shaped like a pencil?""That is physically impossible," Chubs groused. "He'd be--""Actually," Liam began, "Cole once did try to-- What?""Oh, I'm sorry," Chub said, "apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.""I'm going to guess you probably don't want to hear about the time he pushed my head through the neighbours fence...""Was there a lot of blood?" Vida asked, suddenly interested. "Did you lose an ear?"Liam held his hands up next to his ears, indicating both were firmly attached to his skull."Then, no" she said. "No one wants to hear your boring-ass story.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
The aim of life is self-development
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
If she's not alright, I'm going to rip out his heart and eat it." I nodded. "You really shouldn't eat raw meat," Chubs said.
— Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight
Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick," Vida said with a shrug. "You are atually the worst person I have ever met," Chubs said. "And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
I was looped in on your little romantic quest. The only way to get me out without it looking suspicious was to suggest that I come after you dumb asses, since I supposedly know your crappy personality so well.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
Also, screw you—maybe you can be all stealthy and break into their building to get the woman out, but I can getus there and back safely. I did this for months and never got a second glance from anyone, including PSFs.”“Probably because your ugly-ass face blinded them on the first look,” she muttered.
— Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight
Miss Vida" Liam said "has anyone never told you that you are positively the whipped cream on the sundae of life?"She glared at him."Anyone ever told you your head is shaped like a pencil?""That is physically impossible," Chubs groused."He'd be__""Actually Liam began, "Cole once did try to__ What?""Oh,I'm sorry," Chubs said, "apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
I know I'm going to shred the skin off your face and turn it into hair ribbons.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
And for the love of God, bitch, don't get stabbed this time!
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
The end. But I'm telling you now, if either of you breathe a word -one goddamn word- about Cate, I will come down on you so hard, they'll be naming hurricanes after me for a fucking century.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
This kid has more mood swings than a toddler's birthday party.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
I felt the familiar warm tingling at the center of my chest and had just enough time to gasp as some invisible hand yanked me forward, smacking my forehead against the dashboard with enough force to stun me dumb. Chubs slammed on the brakes, forcing my seat belt to do its job and lock against my chest. I was thrown back into my seat, an explosion of colors bursting in my vision. "Oh, hell no!" Chubs roared, slamming a hand against the steering wheel. "That's it! We don not use our abilities on one another, goddammit! Behave yourself!
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood?
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
Next time it'll be your nuts.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don't happen in real life.
— Alberto Fuguet, Missing
Throw me to the wolves &I'll return leading the pack
— -Unknown
I wasn't planning to lead, I was standing in the back and then everyone turned around.
— Avery Hiebert
If a good man can't sleep after hurting people, then he should learn much more to be a leader.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.
— David E. Wilkins, The Hank Adams Reader: An Exemplary Native Activist and the Unleashing of Indigenous Sovereignty
Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.
— James Clavell, Tai-Pan
Better an unsung hero than a fallen star.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of a particular group, scene or tribe. I was friends with everybody. My best friend in high school was prom queen, yet I was voted the biggest nonconformist of my senior class.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament
No two snowflakes are alike and neither are the Soldier's in your charge. Don't make the mistake of treating your Soldier's like tangible things instead of the valued human assets they are.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
Learning to accept help from others is not a sign of weakness it's a badge of courage reflecting mutual trust between the giver and the receiver.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
When you release the garbage of negativity, you can digest positivity for your destiny.
— Annette Rivers
Leaders are the reflector in the society, Great leaders don't hide their face from social media.
— Anwar Akash
Where are you going, Albert?”Albert said nothing. How rare, Quinn thought: Albert speechless.“Not really your concern, Quinn,” Albert said finally.“You’re running out.”Albert sighed. To his three companions he said, “Go ahead and get in the boat. The Boston Whaler. Yes, that one.” Turning back to Quinn he said, “It’s been good doing business with you. If you want, you can come with us. We have room for one more. You’re a good guy.”“And my crews?”“Limited resources, Quinn.”Quinn laughed a little. “You’re a piece of work, aren’t you, Albert?”Albert didn’t seem bothered. “I’m a businessman. It’s about making a profit and surviving. It so happens that I’ve kept everyone alive for months. So I guess I’m sorry if you don’t like me, Quinn, but what’s coming next isn’t about business. What’s coming next is craziness. We’re going back to the days of starvation. But in the dark this time. Craziness. Madness.”His eyes glinted when he said that last word. Quinn saw the fear there. Madness. Yes, that would terrify the eternally rational businessman.“All that happens if I stay,” Albert continued, “is that someone decides to kill me. I’ve already come too close to being dead once.”“Albert, you’re a leader. You’re an organizer. We’re going to need that.”Albert waved an impatient hand and glanced over to see that the Boston Whaler was ready. “Caine’s a leader. Sam’s a leader. Me?” Albert considered it for a second and shook the idea off. “No. I’m important, but I’m not a leader. Tell you what, though, Quinn: in my absence you speak for me. If that helps, good for you.”Albert climbed down into the Boston Whaler. Pug started the engine and Leslie-Ann cast off the ropes. Some of the last gasoline in Perdido Beach sent the boat chugging out of the marina.“Hey, Quinn!” Albert shouted back. “Don’t come to the island without showing a white flag. I don’t want to blow you up!
— Michael  Grant, Fear
You’re supposed to be the big boss.”Sam said nothing. The crowd hushed, ready to watch this one-on-one confrontation.“You’re the big boss of the freaks,” Zil yelled. “But you can’t do anything. You can shoot laser beams out of your hands, but you can’t get enough food, and you can’t keep the power on, and you won’t do anything about that murderer Hunter, who killed my best friend.” He paused to fill his lungs for a final, furious cry. “You shouldn’t be in charge.”“You want to be in charge, Zil? Last night you were running around trying to get a lynch mob together. And let’s not even pretend that wasn’t you responsible for graffiti I saw driving into town just now.”“So what?” Zil demanded. “So what? So I said what everyone who isn’t a freak is thinking.”He spit the word “freak,” making it an insult, making it an accusation.“You really think what we need right now is to divide up between freaks and normals?” Sam asked. “You figure that will get the lights turned back on? That will put food on people’s tables?
— Michael  Grant, Hunger
Now, who else speaks for Perdido Beach?”Bouncing Bette said, “Sam Temple here went into a burning building to rescue a little girl. He can speak for me, anyway.”There was a murmur of agreement.“Yeah, Sam is a hero for real,” a voice said.“He could have died,” another voice seconded.“Yeah, Sam’s the guy.”Caine’s smile came and disappeared so quickly, Sam wasn’t sure it had happened. For that millisecond it was a look of triumph. Caine walked straight up to Sam, open and forthright, hand extended.“There are probably better people than me,” Sam said, backing away.
— Michael Grant, Gone
You need to think about all that, Sam,” Dekka said. “You’re the leader, after all.”“Not anymore,” he said.Dekka laughed. She stood up and stretched. “Sam: you’re still the leader. You’re always going to be the leader. It’s not something you choose: it’s something you are.
— Michael  Grant, Plague
Your influence as a leader will increase when you empower others' strengths, which in return equips them to pursue their callings, not their shortcomings.
— Farshad Asl
Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They’d wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
I was born to become victorious, to become a model, to inspire others and to become a leader.
— Nathaniel E. Quimada
Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
A leader is the one who is pulling the sled hardest.
— Jeffrey Fry
No one is perfect. We all have weaknesses and limitations. Some can't be fixed. But, at least, a leader shouldn't find herself blindsided...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader.
— Carsten K. Rath
More than weapons, we need a leader.
— Wilbur Smith, The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
The leader turns the pyramid onto its head in order to serve others.
— Ken  Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
All Prophets were leaders, should all leaders be Prophets
— Faisal Khosa
There are two types of silly bosses: one is the too kind boss and another, the evil boss
— Managers Essentials, Interviewing Skills
Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course
— Orson Scott Card
He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.
— Robert Jordan, Towers of Midnight
As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work—you remove roadblocks and help them win.
— Kenneth H. Blanchard, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
Description before prescription is the trait of a leader!!!
— Santosh Adbhut Kumar
When you become ministers, teach your people how to think independently without relying on you for instructions. Don't be a leader who tries to control people. Do not limit your people, but provide a creative environment for them to take the initiative
— Sunday Adelaja
The pace of a leader determines the pace of his follower.
— Sunday Adelaja
A leader should not be a dictator.
— Sunday Adelaja
A leader should accurately discern deceit.
— Sunday Adelaja
The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence
— Sunday Adelaja
Every leader will hit a series of plateaus in their lives. The key is not to say there, because settling on a plateau can easily lead to an elongated season of comfort. Being comfortable is one of the leader's worst enemies
— Gary Rohrmayer
You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
Nobody can truely become a leader, unless he has performed feats for God. It is only possible to ascend to spiritual heights in the Kingdom of God, if you fully exert yourself.
— Sunday Adelaja
Without longsuffering, it is impossible to be a successful leader.
— Sunday Adelaja
The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.
— Paul Sloane, The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire your Team and Drive Creativity
If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading
— Saji Ijiyemi
Intelligence is a mere means of building ones focus,it's knowledge,wisdom and understanding that is the factor that attributes to one achieving ones position in society to gain ones place to be a leader and a guide
— Marcelle Hinkson
The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.
— Scott K. Edinger, The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company
Lead by Example,not by showing samples
— Seyi Ayoola
Technical expertise is only a tiny portion of what it takes to be a successful employee and, particularly, a successful leader.
— Joanie Connell, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life
A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.
— Debasish Mridha
A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
Listening is a tough skill, but one who practice it becomes The Successful Leader!!!
— Santosh Adbhut Kumar
A leader is criticised for whatever he does as all his actions benefit some and adversely affect others. When other people commit the same mistake, they can be forgiven or ignored, but never a leader, for his actions affect a large number of people.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
Hatred is very powerful. It can overpower love. When a man burns in the fire of hatred, he cannot feel any love, and is willing to destroy his enemy even if it kills him. It is amazing to note that a leader who may be driven to act against another in hatred, may be showered with love in the process. People who share his hatred may love him for rising up to the challenge.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
My Pakistanis, you have not left me alone and I promise, I will never leave you alone in sha Allah
— Imran Khan
People don’t need you to fix them, they are not broken, just serve them.
— Malti Bhojwani
The single and peculiar mind is boundWith all the strength and armor of the mindTo keep itself from noyance, but much moreThat spirit upon whose weal depends and restsThe lives of many. The cess of majestyDies not alone, but like a gulf doth drawWhat's near it with it; or it is a massy wheelFixed on the summit of the highest mount,To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser thingsAre mortised and adjoined, which, when it falls,Each small annexment, petty consequence,Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never aloneDid the king sigh, but with a general groan.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
A leader must be responsible for his people not his personal interest.
— Bradley B. Dalina
There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.
— Gert Van Mol
A leader must take responsibility for all his actions and not blame anyone for his problems. The follower, on the other hand, is always in search of a scapegoat or a miracle worker who can solve his problems. That is why leaders and followers complement each other. A leader is one who is willing to take on responsibility of not only his own failures but also that of his followers.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.
— Orrin Woodward
People like the leaders; they like to follow them; they let the leaders to think on behalf of them; they like shepherds; they like to behave like sheep! For god’s sake, follow your own path, be an individual, be independent! Stop being a coach in the train, a duck in the row! Get some personality! Use your own mind to determine your own path! Forget the leader, forget the shepherd, forget the guru, and forget the protagonist! Be the leader of yourself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The very meaning of a leader is that people must follow him. If no one follows, you cannot be a leader even if you are the most intelligent, powerful and wealthy person in the world. Interestingly, you cannot become powerful or wealthy unless you are a leader. Further, anyone who acquires wealth or power automatically becomes a leader as people tend to follow such people.
— Awdhesh Singh, Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness
The knowledge of the worker is often called ‘skill’, for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is ‘academic’ as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is ‘creative’ which can generally not be taught, and must come from within.
— Awdhesh Singh, Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness
I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
A leader is one who travels the path carved out by him, and he ‘leads’ himself onward on that path. If his path is good and his goals are desirable, many more may follow him in their desire to achieve the same goal. Hence, followership is the effect of leadership and not its cause.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
A leader is generally not more virtuous than most ordinary people. The opposite is usually true. Because people are reluctant to be led by those perceived as evil, a leader expertly creates a façade, behind which he hides all that may appear dirty. This is a difficult art where the leader has to wear two masks, one in public and the other in private—and no one should see the true face of a leader.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
The actions of a leader are always criticised by scholars as well as common men. A scholar has no obligation to produce result, so he is free to rebuke leaders for not sticking to noble means. Common men envy leaders their position and power, thus feeling happy in vilifying them to pull them down to their own levels.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
A true leader is responsible for his followers who have reposed their faith in his leadership. If an ordinary man fails, it is a personal failure. But when a leader fails, he shatters the entire ideologies, principles and morale of all those who followed him. The impact is much bigger and stakes are higher.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.
— Orrin Woodward
A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.
— jaha Knight, The Soulphisticated Lady's Guide to Being a Boss
Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
— Saji Ijiyemi
For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and will, better than experience, ordinarily the best product of the longest lives—the faculty divinest of men, but which”—he stopped, and laughed again, not bitterly, but with real zest—“but which even the great do not sufficiently account, while with the herd it is a non-existent—the faculty of drawing men to my purpose and holding them faithfully to its achievement, by which, as against things to be done, I multiply myself into hundreds and thousands.
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The key function of a leader is, to build more leaders.
— Krishna Sagar
A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
I believe that everyone is a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change. All we need to do is acknowledge and understand this and then help others to also understand the same. That’s all it takes to be a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change.
— Jeroninio Almeida, Karma Kurry for the Mind, Body, Heart & Soul
MANDELA: " a man deemed to be the greatest icon in Africa. his life thought me couple of lessons that always inspires me to strive hard for respect and to make an impact on humanity. may his footsteps continue to live for ever on the sands of time.
— victor adeagbo
I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine.
— Saji Ijiyemi
Your organization needs you to be the lead, not the lid. If you're not growing as a leader, you've become the lid
— Saji Ijiyemi
The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don’t know who to fear. Isn’t that why god was invented?
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
There are no more worlds to conquer!
— Alexander the Great
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
— Arnold H. Glasow
A traitor leader is the outcome of a fool nation.
— M.F. Moonzajer, 30 Pieces
A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.
— Jacob Kaye
The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.
— Claire A. Murray
Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
— Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life, 1874-1904
Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.He frowned."I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy
My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I cannot place my faith in God or anyone else, because if I do, I am merely a follower. In order to respect my mother's wishes, I had to dethrone God himself and claim the title as leader.
— Lionel Suggs
As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.
— Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa
The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.
— Paul Sloane, The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire your Team and Drive Creativity
Your Writing Teacher ‏@WritingChiefIf u don't get ur protagonist dirty, ur readers will get bored. Readers are wild, cliff-jumping, mud-wrestling savages. Become their leader. (anonymous on Twitter)
— Writing Chief
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.
— Elena D. Calin, Leader versus Manager
A leader would think that most people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
— Elena D. Calin, Leader versus Manager
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,
— Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Deep in the meadow, under the willowa bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyesand when again they open, the sun will rise.Hear it's safe, here it's warm hear the daisies guard you from every harm hear your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true hear is the place where i love you.Deep in the meadow, hidden far away a clock of leaves, a moonbeam rayforget your woes and let your troubles lay and when again it's morning, they'll wash away.Hear it's safe, hears its' warm hear the daises guard you from every harm Hear your dreams are sweet and tomorrow bring them true hear is the place where i love you.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
You can't eat books, sweetheart.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.
— Cherrie Lynn, Rock Me
As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.”“And you're still not sorry,” I reply."I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks.“No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
— Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
— Emily Giffin, Something Blue
Humility is not thinking less of yourself
—  it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.
Play hard to get. You should be.
— Addison Moore, Ethereal
Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.
— Jay Bell, Something Like Summer
Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.
— Janet Evanovich, Hard Eight
Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home
—  we were created for something much better.
People come and go, in and out of each other’s lives like it’s nothing. So I don’t know how/why this should be a big deal.
— Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street
the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
— Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.
— Jason Fried, Rework
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
— Scott Westerfeld, Pretties
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firstborn
They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.
— Blaize Clement, Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter
What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief