Motivational Quotes

Leadership

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

- Pope John XXIII

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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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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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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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 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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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Maurois, Andre

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.