Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

- Evenius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Daniel Akst

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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

18.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

21.

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Motto

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Lindner, Robert

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

46.

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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.