Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Oech, Roger Von

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Motto

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 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

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

Naisbitt, John

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

14.

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

16.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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

20.

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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

23.

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

Laura Preble

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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

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

27.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

28.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

29.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

30.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

33.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Diderot, Denis

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Motto

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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

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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