Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders are readers.

- Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Best Quotes about Leadership

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Milton, John

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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.

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

Depree, Max

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Proverb, German

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.