Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Leadership

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Caine, Mark

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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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

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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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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

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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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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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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