Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Who has not served cannot command.

- Florio, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Adelman, Ken

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Confucius

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca