Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Daniel Akst

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

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

Half, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Allen, Norman

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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

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

Naisbitt, John