Motivational Quotes

Leadership

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

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

Laura Preble

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

Townsend, Robert

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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.

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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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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.

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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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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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Proverb, French

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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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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