Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Naisbitt, 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.

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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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 was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Milton, John

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Ford, Henry

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

Schorr, James

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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 best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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