Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Churchill, Winston

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Laura Preble

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Schorr, James