Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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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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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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Motto

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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

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

Batten, Joe

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

Wanamaker, John

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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 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.

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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ford, Henry

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster