Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Oech, Roger Von

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Parker, Dorothy

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.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Milton, John

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Ovid

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Carlyle, Thomas