Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Popularity is not leadership.

- Marcinko, Richard

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

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

Peter Drucker

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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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

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Motto

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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.

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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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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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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lindner, Robert

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schorr, James

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Depree, Max

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster