Tuesday 17 May 2011

Great Leaders

Great leaders are born not made. ~ William A. Cohen

Yes, the above mentioned quote is very true. And till today we remember them, we revere them. Such great was their caliber that they will forever be honored as great leaders. They have attained this position through struggle, hardships and possession of leadership qualities. In this article you shall come to know about the greatest leaders of all time.

List of Great Leaders

People have evolved from different backgrounds, ruling countries for ages and leaving a mark even after death. Check out names of the world's greatest leaders. The list shall include men and women both.

Great Female Leaders
The softer gender has gifted the world a different outlook. Such great female leaders possessed superb qualities to rule the entire country. And due to many more reasons they are still renowned as world's famous women leaders. Here we go with the list.

    * Wu Zetian
    * Hatshepsut
    * Elizabeth I
    * Queen Victoria
    * Indira Gandhi
    * Golda Meir
    * Margaret Thatcher
    * Catherine II
    * Janet Jagan
    * Benazir Bhutto
    * Queen Elizabeth II
    * Queen Margrethe 2
    * Queen Beatrix
    * Mary McAleese
    * President Pratibha Patil
    * Rosa Parks
    * Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed
    * President Dalia GrybauskaitÄ—
    * Angela Merkel

Great American Leaders
The U.S is known for giving birth to famous leaders of all time. The qualities of a good leader could be best exemplified from the names of the figures mentioned below. They are included under the list of great American leaders.

    * Abraham Lincoln
    * Franklin Roosevelt
    * Benjamin Franklin
    * John F. Kennedy
    * Douglas Macarthur
    * General Dwight Eisenhower
    * Eleanor Roosevelt
    * Theodore Roosevelt
    * Martin Luther King. Jr.
    * Thomas Jefferson
    * George Washington
    * George W. Bush
    * Barack Obama

Great Military Leaders
Leaders have also proven their leadership qualities with strength and power. They have fought wars and have led the army to in the course of battles and war, as protective measures from foreign invasion and terror attacks. The names of such great military leaders are included in the list below.

    * Alexander the Great
    * Napoleon Bonaparte
    * Erwin Rommel
    * Hannibal
    * Genghis Khan
    * George S. Patton
    * Robert E. Lee
    * Julius Caesar
    * Richard the Lionheart
    * Mao Zedong
    * Stonewall Jackson
    * Georgi Zhukov
    * Adolf Hitler
    * Joan of Arc
    * Fidel Castro
    * Saddam Hussein
    * Ulysses S. Grant
    * Charlemagne
    * Hernando Cortes
    * Douglas Mac Arthur
    * George Patton
    * Georgi Zhukov
    * George Washington
    * Vladimir Putin
    * George W. Bush
    * Francisco Pizarro
    * Alexander Suvorov
    * Horatio Nelson

Other Great Leaders
Apart from the figures enlisted above, there are also many great leaders who have lead the country to victory and has established some of the greatest achievements. So who are the great leaders in history? Find out from the list written below.

    * Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
    * Joseph Stalin
    * Jawaharlal Nehru
    * Mahatma Gandhi
    * Idi Amin
    * Sun Yat Sen
    * Yitzhak Rabin
    * Mikhail Gorbachev
    * Kim Dae Jung
    * Sun Yat Sen
    * Nicolae Ceausescu
    * Benito Mussolini
    * Ho Chi Minh
    * Bill Clinton
    * Subhash Chandra Bose
    * Al Gore
    * Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    * Tarja Halonen
    * Vaira Vikis-Freibergs
    * Nelson Mandela

Great Quotes from Great Leaders

The famous leadership quotes mentioned in the following content are from great leaders. They are actually words of wisdom, power, will and inspiration. There are also quotes about great leaders, that have horned them and enhanced their worth of being great leaders. Here they are.

    * Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry ~ Winston Churchill
    * Never give an order that can't be obeyed ~ General Douglas MacArthur
    * Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand ~ General Colin Powell
    * A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction ~ J. Robert Clinton
    * People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives ~ Theodore Roosevelt
    * Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil - the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be ~ William George Jordan
    * Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other ~ Abraham Lincoln
    * A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on ~ John F. Kennedy
    * Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man ~ Ronald Reagan
    * I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
    * Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession ~ George Washington
    * A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
    * If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution ~ Adolf Hitler

I'm sure you have derived useful information form this article, The 'Great Leaders'. You can find out their individual biographies from books or Internet to know their achievements.

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