Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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

Half, Robert

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

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

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Batten, Joe

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Maurois, Andre

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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