Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

Patton, George S.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

10.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

11.

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

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ford, Henry

14.

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

20.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

21.

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.

22.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

23.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

25.

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

Townsend, Robert

28.

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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

40.

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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

46.

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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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