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

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Daniel Akst

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.

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Motto

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Ovid

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Confucius

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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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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.