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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, German

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Adelman, Ken

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.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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.

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Hennessy, Edward

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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

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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 good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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