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

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Proverb, German

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Ward, Ted

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

George Goethals

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Motto

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Saying, Zen

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.