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

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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

3.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

4.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Half, Robert

6.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

7.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

Peter Drucker

9.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

10.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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

12.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

13.

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

Batten, Joe

14.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

15.

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

16.

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

Saying, Zen

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

19.

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

Perot, H. Ross

20.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

21.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

23.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

24.

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.

25.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

26.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

27.

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

Bennis, Warren

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

30.

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

Townsend, Robert

31.

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

Ford, Henry

32.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

33.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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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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.

36.

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

38.

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

Motto

39.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

40.

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.

41.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

42.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

43.

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.

44.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

45.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

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

Maurois, Andre

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

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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

50.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald