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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Ford, Henry

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Half, Robert

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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

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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

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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.