Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

- Willkie, Wendell L.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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.

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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Ford, Henry

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, German

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Laura Preble

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.