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

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

Peter Drucker

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Depree, Max

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

11.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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.

14.

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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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.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Motto

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Proverb, German

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

Ovid

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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Milton, John

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord