Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Leadership

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, French

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Peter Drucker

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Allen, Norman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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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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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.