Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Milton, John

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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 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

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Confucius

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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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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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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 real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster