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

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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.

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

Schorr, James

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.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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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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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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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Half, Robert

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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