Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

George Goethals

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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.

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

Lindner, Robert

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

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

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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Proverb, French

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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.