Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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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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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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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Ovid

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Parker, Dorothy

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo