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

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Maurois, Andre

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Schorr, James

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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 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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Ovid

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

Daniel Akst

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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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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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 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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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.