Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

- Evenius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

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

Saying, Zen

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Motto

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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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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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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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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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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

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.