Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Leadership

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ward, Ted

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Proverb, German

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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 don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Laura Preble

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Milton, John

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schorr, James

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

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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.