Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Leadership

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Meir, Golda

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

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lukas, Wayne

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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.