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

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Proverb, French

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Ward, Ted

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry