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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

Ovid

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

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Motto

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schorr, James

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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