Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Lindner, Robert

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Laura Preble

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

Milton, John

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Proverb, French

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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 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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Peter Drucker

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.