Motivational Quotes

Leadership

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Leadership

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 secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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.

Truman, Harry S

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

Townsend, Robert

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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.

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

Milton, John

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Motto

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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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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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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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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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.