Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.