Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

George Goethals

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.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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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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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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 in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond