Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Diogenes of Sinope

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

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

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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 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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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

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Miller, Henry

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Wanamaker, John

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, German

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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

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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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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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