Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

Ovid

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Depree, Max

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

Miller, Henry

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Parker, Dorothy

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Schorr, James

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

Half, Robert

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Allen, Norman

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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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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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, German

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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