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

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Confucius

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 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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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.

13.

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Depree, Max

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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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 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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

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

29.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

George Goethals

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

Lindner, Robert