Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Marden, Orison Swett

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Half, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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