Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

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

Depree, Max

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

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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

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Ward, Ted

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

Bennis, Warren

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Barker, Joel A.

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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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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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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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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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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

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

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu