Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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.

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.

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

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

George Goethals

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Diderot, Denis

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Proverb, French

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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 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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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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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo