Motivational Quotes

Leadership

To lead people walk behind them.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Schorr, James

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Batten, Joe

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

Barker, Joel A.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Confucius

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Peter Drucker

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

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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

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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

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Wanamaker, John

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Half, Robert

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry