Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Naisbitt, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Maxwell, John C.

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.

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

Packard, Vance

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Melbourne, Lord

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wanamaker, John

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee