Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Milton, John

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Half, Robert

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

Batten, Joe

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Proverb, German

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

Maurois, Andre

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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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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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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.