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

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Confucius

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Schorr, James

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Maurois, Andre

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Marx, Groucho

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca