Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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.

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.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Milton, John

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

10.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

George Goethals

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

18.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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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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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

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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 serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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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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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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 first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Patton, George S.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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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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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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.