The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.


Montrose and Leadership (1930), p 24; republished in Men and Deeds (1977)

John Buchan Quotes

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.