Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Confucius

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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