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

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

Depree, Max

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

Half, Robert

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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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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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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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, French

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Motto

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Lindner, Robert

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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