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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Naisbitt, John

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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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

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Diderot, Denis

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben