Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

- Evenius

Best Quotes about Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Ervin, Sam

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

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

Maxwell, John C.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Schorr, James

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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.