Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Lindner, Robert

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bennis, Warren

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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.

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

Half, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Depree, Max

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Adelman, Ken

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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