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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Oech, Roger Von

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Maxwell, John C.

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

Meir, Golda

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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

18.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

19.

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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon