Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Azai, Rabbi Ben

Best Quotes about Leadership

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

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

Half, Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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

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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Motto

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Proverb, French

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Hennessy, Edward

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert