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

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milton, John

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

11.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

12.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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 real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ward, Ted

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Perot, H. Ross

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Depree, Max

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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.

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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.

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.