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

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Ford, Henry

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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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 successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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

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Who has not served cannot command.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Milton, John

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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

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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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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

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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

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu