Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

- Johnston, Albert Sidney

Best Quotes about Leadership

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''

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Motto

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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'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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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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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