Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lindner, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Parker, Dorothy

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Half, Robert

11.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

15.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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

23.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

28.

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

Lukas, Wayne

29.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

30.

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

Townsend, Robert

31.

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 best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

33.

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

Ovid

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Maxwell, John C.

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.