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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Perot, H. Ross

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.

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

Half, Robert

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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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

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Bennis, Warren

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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 executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Patton, George S.