Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Leadership

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

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

Half, Robert

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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 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

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Milton, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schorr, James

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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