Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Diderot, Denis

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Motto

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Lukas, Wayne

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Motto

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Ovid

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

Depree, Max

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George