Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Half, Robert

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Proverb

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

Marx, Groucho

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Depree, Max

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, French

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.