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

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

When the best leader's work is done 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

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

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

George Goethals

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, German

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Schorr, James

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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

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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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