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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

Half, Robert

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

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Allen, Norman

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

Ward, Ted

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Miller, Henry

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Proverb, German

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Peter Drucker

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe