Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Leadership

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

Daniel Akst

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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 person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ward, Ted

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Ford, Henry

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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.

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Maurois, Andre

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo