Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Leadership

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Bennis, Warren

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ervin, Sam

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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

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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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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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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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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Miller, Henry

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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

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

Ward, Ted

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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 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

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst