Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Meir, Golda

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

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

Adelman, Ken

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Ford, Henry

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Naisbitt, John

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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

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.