Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Confucius

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

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

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