Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Miller, Henry

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

Lukas, Wayne

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Confucius

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Peter Drucker

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, French

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John