Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Depree, Max

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

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

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

Maxwell, John C.

10.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

14.

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

Peter Drucker

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Proverb, German

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barker, Joel A.

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Perot, H. Ross

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Half, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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