Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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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Best Quotes about Leadership

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wanamaker, John

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Maurois, Andre

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Half, Robert

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

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

Confucius

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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 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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

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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 world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Depree, Max

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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

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu