Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

10.

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

11.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

21.

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.

22.

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

Ovid

23.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

24.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

25.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

26.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

27.

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.

28.

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.

29.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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

Confucius

31.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

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

33.

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!

34.

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

35.

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

Ford, Henry

36.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

39.

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

40.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

41.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

45.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

46.

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.

47.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

48.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

49.

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

Lukas, Wayne

50.

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth