Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Confucius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Peters, Thomas J.

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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

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

Half, Robert

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

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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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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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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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ovid

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Ford, Henry