Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Milton, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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