Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Those who can command themselves command others.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Leadership

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Daniel Akst

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

Lukas, Wayne

10.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

11.

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

12.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

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.

15.

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

16.

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

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Miller, Henry

21.

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

Motto

22.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

25.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

28.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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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

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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.

40.

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

41.

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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