Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Half, Robert

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

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

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Saying, Zen

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Motto

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bennis, Warren

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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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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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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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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

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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