Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

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

Melbourne, Lord

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.

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

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Motto

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Walters, J. Donald

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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

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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 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 first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

35.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Depree, Max

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Ford, Henry