Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

- Welch, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Caine, Mark

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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.

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

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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.

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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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

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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 appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, German

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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Ward, Ted

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Confucius

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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