Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ward, Ted

Best Quotes about Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

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

Laura Preble

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

Caine, Mark

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

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

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

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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

Proverb, French

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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Naisbitt, John

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Depree, Max

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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 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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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 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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren