Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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.

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

Motto

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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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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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

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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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.