Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Leadership

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

George Goethals

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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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.

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Proverb, German

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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

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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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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.

Milton, John

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ovid

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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