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

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Townsend, Robert

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ovid

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Proverb, German

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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