Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

- King George VI

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Confucius

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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.

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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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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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 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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Parker, Dorothy

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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 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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas