Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Oech, Roger Von

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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 is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Proverb, German

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Milton, John

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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

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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 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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Townsend, Robert

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.