Motivational Quotes

Leadership

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Laura Preble

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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

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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 leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Depree, Max

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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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 first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth