Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Miller, Henry

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Depree, Max

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Lapham, Lewis H.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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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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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people