Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Motto

Best Quotes about Leadership

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Ward, Ted

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Depree, Max

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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 secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre