Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Diogenes of Sinope

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Ward, Ted

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Milton, John

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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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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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.