Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Perot, H. Ross

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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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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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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Lincoln, Abraham