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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Goethals

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

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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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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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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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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Naisbitt, John

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Ward, Ted

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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 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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Motto

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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Batten, Joe

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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