Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Packard, Vance

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

Townsend, Robert

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ford, Henry

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Motto

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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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

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

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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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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

Lindner, 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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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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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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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope