Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Motto

Best Quotes about Leadership

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Confucius

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe