Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

- Will, George F.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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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

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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.

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

Motto

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Depree, Max

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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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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 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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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