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

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, German

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Half, Robert

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

Confucius

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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

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Motto

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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.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Lao-Tzu

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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