Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Proverb, French

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Jung, Carl

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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 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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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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 measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.