Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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.

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

Batten, Joe

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Saying, Zen

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.

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Peter Drucker

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Schorr, James

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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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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Miller, Henry

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Depree, Max

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Lao-Tzu

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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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