Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Maurois, Andre

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.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Caine, Mark

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Motto

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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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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

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

25.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Milton, John