Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

- Saunders, Richard

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.

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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.

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

Motto

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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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Meir, Golda

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 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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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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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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