Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

- Bennis, Warren

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Milton, John

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Half, Robert

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Confucius

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

Motto

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schorr, James

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

Proverb, German

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Depree, Max