Lloyd Alexander Quotes

The price of greatness is responsibility.

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

To the victor belong the responsibilities.

I lack the strength needed to sustain the scepter. I abhorred it, but in the end I agreed to accept it in order to prevent evils to the country which was about to succumb anew, if not to the former slavery, at least to the horrors of anarchy.

The heaviest burden of leadership is the death of your followers.

With great power goes great responsibility.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

One of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

More than any other people on Earth, we bear burdens and accept risks unprecedented in their size and their duration, not for ourselves alone but for all who wish to be free.

The saddest moment as Prime Minister is writing letters to families who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan or those who we have tried to help in hostage situations but it hasn't worked out.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

It doesn't come naturally to me, being the boss and telling people what I want. I find it very taxing and tiring. I love getting to be way down the line in the decision-making chain.

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

When you get the armband, everyone looks to you to lead, and when things go wrong, then you get criticised the most, and I need to take that on the chin.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!