Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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 don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb, French

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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