Motivational Quotes

Leadership

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

- Knox, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

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.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Motto

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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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.