Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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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

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 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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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 wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Ovid

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Confucius

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho