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

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Packard, Vance

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Lindner, Robert

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Schorr, James

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Milton, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Laura Preble

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, French

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius