Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Confucius

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

Ford, Henry

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 the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

10.

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

Perot, H. Ross

11.

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

12.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Motto

17.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

18.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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.

29.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

30.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Proverb, German

32.

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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

44.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.