Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Ovid

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Proverb, German

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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.

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Marx, Groucho

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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.