Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Motto

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Allen, Norman

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.

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

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, French

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Diderot, Denis

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Ovid

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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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 golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.