Motivational Quotes

Leadership

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

- Knox, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Patton, George S.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wanamaker, John

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

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

Proverb, French

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Depree, Max

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

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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 appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Half, Robert

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon