Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Bennis, Warren

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.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Wanamaker, John

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Proverb, German

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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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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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schorr, James

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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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