Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lukas, Wayne

Best Quotes about Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Lukas, Wayne

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

21.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Townsend, Robert

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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

30.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

33.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Oech, Roger Von

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

42.

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.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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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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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