Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Meir, Golda

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Marx, Groucho

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

11.

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 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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Milton, John

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

20.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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.

23.

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

26.

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

Townsend, Robert

27.

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

28.

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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

30.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

31.

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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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

34.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Ovid

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

40.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

41.

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.

42.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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