Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Oech, Roger Von

Best Quotes about Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Peter Drucker

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Wanamaker, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Batten, Joe

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney