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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Patton, George S.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Motto

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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.

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler