Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

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.

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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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 world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Miller, Henry

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Half, Robert

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.