Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Patton, George S.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Depree, Max

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 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 real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Men are lead by trifles.