Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

George Goethals

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, German

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

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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 are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ward, Ted

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Confucius

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

Motto

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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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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott