Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

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

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Ovid

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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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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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.