Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

- Piatt, Don

Best Quotes about Leadership

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Meir, Golda

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Batten, Joe

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben