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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Motto

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

Proverb, German

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Half, Robert

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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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

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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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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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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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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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

38.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

48.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.