Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Schorr, James

Best Quotes about Leadership

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Schorr, James

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Half, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Motto

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Naisbitt, John

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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.

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

Depree, Max

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Marx, Groucho

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Diderot, Denis

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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.

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

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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

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.