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

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

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

Marx, Groucho

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Milton, John

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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 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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.