Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The right man comes at the right time.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lukas, Wayne

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lindner, Robert

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Milton, John

10.

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

11.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

12.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

13.

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

14.

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

15.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

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

Half, Robert

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

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

Peter Drucker

20.

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

21.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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 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

25.

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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

28.

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

George Goethals

29.

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

Confucius

30.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

31.

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

Melbourne, Lord

32.

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

Maurois, Andre

33.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Diogenes of Sinope

36.

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

Naisbitt, John

37.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

38.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

39.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

40.

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

41.

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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

43.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

47.

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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.