Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Leadership

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

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

Ward, Ted

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ovid

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

Hennessy, Edward

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Motto

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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

George Goethals

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Depree, Max

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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Milton, John

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

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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