Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Townsend, Robert

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Motto

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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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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Half, Robert

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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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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Diderot, Denis

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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.

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John