Motivational Quotes

Leadership

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Townsend, Robert

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, German

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Depree, Max

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Proverb, French

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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Ovid

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Ward, Ted

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.