Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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.

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Meir, Golda

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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 has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Lao-Tzu

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Caine, Mark

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.