Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Milton, John

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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Motto

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian