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

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Ford, Henry

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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.

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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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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

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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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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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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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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 nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Miller, Henry

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.