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

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

Allen, Norman

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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 don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Motto

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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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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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon