Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Proverb

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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.

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

George Goethals

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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.

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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 first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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