Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Motto

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Schorr, James

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.

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Adelman, Ken

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

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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 minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Wanamaker, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Peter Drucker

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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