Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Hesburgh, Theodore M.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Batten, Joe

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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

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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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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Depree, Max

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 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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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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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

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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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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius