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

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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.

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

Packard, Vance

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

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

Miller, Henry

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.

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

Hennessy, Edward

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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Ovid

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Patton, George S.

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

Half, Robert

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

Ward, Ted

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Peter Drucker

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

Laura Preble

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Motto

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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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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 one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall