Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

- Lauren, Ralph

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Allen, Norman

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ward, Ted

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

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

Oech, Roger Von

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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.

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

Packard, Vance

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Miller, Henry

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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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 are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren