Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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

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

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

Bennis, Warren

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Oech, Roger Von

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Townsend, Robert

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Schorr, James

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Proverb, French

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.