Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ovid

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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Bennis, Warren

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

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu