Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ward, Ted

Best Quotes about Leadership

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

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

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.

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Motto

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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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 involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Meir, Golda

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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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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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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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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

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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