Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bennis, Warren

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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 must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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