Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Half, Robert

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.

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.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Proverb, German

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Parker, Dorothy

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Meir, Golda

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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

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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 measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Depree, Max

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

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.