Socrates Quotes Concerning Leadership
Socrates (470 BC – 399 BC) was from Greece is one of the most renowned philosophers of all time.
Leadership Examples from Socrates:
- “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
- “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
- “Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
- “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
- “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
- “Beware of the barrenness of a busy life.”
- “Understanding a question is half an answer.”
- “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
- “To move the world we must move ourselves.”
- “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”