Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Confucius

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Maurois, Andre

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.