Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership must be established from the top down.

- Nunn, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

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.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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

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

Proverb

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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.

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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 leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Depree, Max

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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 best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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