Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Peter Drucker

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

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.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, German

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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 crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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 the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu