Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Miller, Henry

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leadership must be established from the top down.