Motivational Quotes

Leadership

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

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

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

Miller, Henry

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Motto

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Saying, Zen

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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.

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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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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Batten, Joe

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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 must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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 is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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