Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Depree, Max

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

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

Confucius

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Caine, Mark

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Half, Robert

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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Batten, Joe

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Townsend, Robert

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Schorr, James

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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 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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu