Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Meir, Golda

Best Quotes about Leadership

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lao-Tzu

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Half, Robert

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Schorr, James

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Proverb, German

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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 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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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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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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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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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