Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Iacocca, Lee

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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 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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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 not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, 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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Batten, Joe

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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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