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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Lao-Tzu

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ward, Ted

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ovid

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Walters, J. Donald

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maurois, Andre

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca