Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Naisbitt, John

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Proverb, French

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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Half, Robert

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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!

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schorr, James

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.