Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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.

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Motto

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Schorr, James

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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 not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ford, Henry

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Ovid

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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