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

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.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Peter Drucker

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Depree, Max

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

Half, Robert

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Motto

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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 leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Ovid

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Adelman, Ken

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius