Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Oech, Roger Von

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.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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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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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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 prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid