Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

- Justinian

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Marx, Groucho

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Confucius

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, German

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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.