Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ervin, Sam

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Motto

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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 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

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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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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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Milton, John

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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

Ward, Ted

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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