Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

- Ervin, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Marx, Groucho

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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 firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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.

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

Ovid

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.