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

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

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Peter Drucker

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

Milton, 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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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 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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Motto

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Wanamaker, John

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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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