Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Leadership

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

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

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Allen, Norman

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Saying, Zen

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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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.

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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