Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Diderot, Denis

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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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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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Half, Robert

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

Milton, John

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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.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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