Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Motto

Best Quotes about Leadership

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Milton, John

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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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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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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.

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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.

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Miller, Henry

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Diderot, Denis

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Schorr, James

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Confucius

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.