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

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Batten, Joe

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

Milton, John

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Lindner, Robert

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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 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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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

15.

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

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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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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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

Ovid

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Adelman, Ken

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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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 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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian