Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Wanamaker, John

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ford, Henry

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

Perot, H. Ross

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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

Depree, Max

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Confucius

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

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

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Ovid

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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