Motivational Quotes

Leadership

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Leadership

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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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.

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Schorr, James

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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 in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Ovid

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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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

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Perot, H. Ross