Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ovid

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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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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 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 secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Milton, John

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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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Miller, Henry

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.