Motivational Quotes

Leadership

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

- Melbourne, Lord

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Ervin, Sam

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Motto

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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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

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca