Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Lao-Tzu

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Milton, John

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Townsend, Robert

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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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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 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

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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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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Maurois, Andre

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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.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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

Half, Robert

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

George Goethals

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

42.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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 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

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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Naisbitt, John