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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

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

Adelman, Ken

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Naisbitt, John

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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 boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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.