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

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Ervin, Sam

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Patton, George S.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

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

George Goethals

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Depree, Max

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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 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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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Motto

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett