Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Motto

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Churchill, Winston

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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.

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

Patton, George S.

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Confucius

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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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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

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Diderot, Denis

36.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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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.