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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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 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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Milton, John

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Depree, Max

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

Daniel Akst

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

Batten, Joe

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

Ovid

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu