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

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

George Goethals

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

Naisbitt, John

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Depree, Max

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, 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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

28.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Half, Robert

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Milton, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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