Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Popularity is not leadership.

- Marcinko, Richard

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Peter Drucker

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Motto

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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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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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 lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.