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

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.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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 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.

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Laura Preble

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

Proverb, French

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bennis, Warren

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Proverb, German

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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Caine, Mark

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry