Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Barker, Joel A.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schorr, James

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.

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Naisbitt, John

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Parker, Dorothy

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Packard, Vance

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Ovid

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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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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Milton, John

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

Lindner, Robert

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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.