Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

- Piatt, Don

Best Quotes about Leadership

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Parker, Dorothy

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Townsend, Robert

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Batten, Joe

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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.

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

Peter Drucker

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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