Motivational Quotes

Leadership

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Leadership

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Naisbitt, John

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Meir, Golda

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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 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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, French

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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