Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Leadership

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Wanamaker, John

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Depree, Max

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ervin, Sam

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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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

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

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

Batten, Joe

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Confucius

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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 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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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Motto

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt