Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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.

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

Ford, Henry

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Allen, Norman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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

Proverb, German

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Adelman, Ken

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Ward, Ted

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Lukas, Wayne

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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