Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Oech, Roger Von

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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!

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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 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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Motto

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Proverb, German

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

Milton, John

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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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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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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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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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

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.