Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Leadership

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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.

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

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Motto

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Confucius

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

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Miller, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Schorr, James

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Milton, John

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren