Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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

Allen, Norman

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

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Townsend, Robert

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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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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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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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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 a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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The right man comes at the right time.