Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Ovid

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peter Drucker

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Depree, Max

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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 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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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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