Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Batten, Joe

Best Quotes about Leadership

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Ovid

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Milton, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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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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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.

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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.