Motivational Quotes

Leadership

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Schorr, James

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

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Marx, Groucho

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Half, Robert

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Oech, Roger Von

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Naisbitt, John

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma