Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Milton, John

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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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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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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Half, Robert

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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.