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 can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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 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

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Confucius

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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.

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Bennis, Warren

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.