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

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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 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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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Depree, Max

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

Ovid

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Milton, John

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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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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.