Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Perot, H. Ross

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Packard, Vance

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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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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 art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Batten, Joe

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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