Motivational Quotes

Leadership

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Leadership

Marden, Orison Swett

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Milton, John

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

Bennis, Warren

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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 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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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 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 secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe