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

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

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ward, Ted

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

Milton, John

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

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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

Peter Drucker

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Ovid

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

Half, Robert

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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 best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Peters, Thomas J.