Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

- Anderson, Marian

Best Quotes about Leadership

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Maurois, Andre

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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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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.

Andre Malraux

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Motto

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

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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.

Updike, John

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Marden, Orison Swett