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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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.

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.

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

Laura Preble

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Miller, Henry

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bennis, Warren

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Marx, Groucho

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, 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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius