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

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, French

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Milton, 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 a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Lukas, Wayne

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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