Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

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

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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

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

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wanamaker, John

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 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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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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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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 action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon