Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders are readers.

- Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Milton, John

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maurois, Andre

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Half, Robert

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Motto

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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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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Confucius

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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