5 Aristotle Quotes on Leadership

Aristotle quotes on leadership

22. They should rule who are able to rule best.

30. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

98. Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

155. Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

164. What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.