Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Ward, Ted

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Peter Drucker

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Iacocca, Lee

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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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

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Maurois, Andre

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.