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

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Half, Robert

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Confucius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway