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

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Motto

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Ward, Ted

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milton, John

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

Half, Robert

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.