Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Half, Robert

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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 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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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