Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

- Hennessy, Edward

Best Quotes about Leadership

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Patton, George S.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Wanamaker, John

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Diderot, Denis

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Schorr, James

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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 chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Confucius

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman