Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

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

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Packard, Vance

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Ward, Ted

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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

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

Half, Robert

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Confucius

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo