Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Leadership

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.