Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Best Quotes about Leadership

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Saying, Zen

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Milton, John

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Confucius

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

Wanamaker, John

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.