Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

- Johnston, Albert Sidney

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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.

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Milton, John

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

Motto

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Depree, Max

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince