Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

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

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

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, German

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, French

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Milton, John

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Confucius

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

Wanamaker, John

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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Rohn, Jim