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

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

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

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Batten, Joe

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

Ward, Ted

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Allen, Norman

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

Confucius

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

Milton, John

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Motto

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Proverb

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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

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

Ovid

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.