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

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ward, Ted

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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.

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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

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Churchill, Winston