Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Leadership

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Adelman, Ken

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

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Motto

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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 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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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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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Miller, Henry

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

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

Half, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Proverb, French

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Townsend, Robert

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Depree, Max

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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.