Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Patton, George S.

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

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 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

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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 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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Ovid

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Carlyle, Thomas