Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Depree, Max

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Motto

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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 best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Batten, Joe

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people