Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ovid

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Milton, John

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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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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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Caine, Mark

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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