Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

- Jaques, Elliott

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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.

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.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Wanamaker, John

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marx, Groucho

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Motto

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Adelman, Ken

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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