Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

- King George VI

Best Quotes about Leadership

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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.

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

George Goethals

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Daniel Akst

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Motto

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Lindner, Robert