Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Half, Robert

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

George Goethals

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Caine, Mark

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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

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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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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.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Confucius

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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