Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ovid

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

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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.

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

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.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Patton, George S.

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Ward, Ted

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De