Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Popularity is not leadership.

- Marcinko, Richard

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Naisbitt, John

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

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.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Barker, Joel A.

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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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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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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 nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Caine, Mark

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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 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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George