Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Milton, John

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

Churchill, Winston

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Townsend, Robert

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lindner, Robert

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Maurois, Andre

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Wanamaker, 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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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 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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.