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 your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Daniel Akst

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Meir, Golda

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

George Goethals

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, French

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell