Motivational Quotes

Leadership

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Leadership

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Marx, Groucho

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, German

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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

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

Half, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Ovid

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca