Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Townsend, Robert

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Half, Robert

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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Naisbitt, John

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Oech, Roger Von

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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.

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Parker, Dorothy

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, 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