Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about 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.

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

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Patton, George S.

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

Diderot, Denis

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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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 best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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