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

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 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

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

Caine, Mark

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

Naisbitt, John

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Ford, Henry

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Hennessy, Edward

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ovid

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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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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