Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diogenes of Sinope

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, German

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ovid

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Motto

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

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Motto

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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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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