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

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Packard, Vance

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Depree, Max

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Milton, John

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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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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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

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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