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

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.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Schorr, James

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Ward, Ted

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

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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

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, German

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Motto

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Ovid

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Churchill, Winston