Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

- Maxwell, John C.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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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 is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saying, Zen

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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.

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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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, German

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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