Motivational Quotes

Leadership

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Kissinger, Henry

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.

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

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

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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

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

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

Peter Drucker

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Laura Preble

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Ford, Henry

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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 great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Maxwell, John C.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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.