Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Parker, Dorothy

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Ovid

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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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

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Proverb, French

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren