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

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

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Milton, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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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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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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 good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S