Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Caine, Mark

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

Half, Robert

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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 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.

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Schorr, James

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Confucius

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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Education is the mother of leadership.