Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Packard, Vance

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Patton, George S.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

10.

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.

11.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

12.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

16.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

17.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

19.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

20.

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

Maurois, Andre

21.

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

22.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

23.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Allen, Norman

26.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

27.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

28.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

29.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

Ervin, Sam

31.

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.

32.

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

33.

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

34.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

35.

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

36.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

39.

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

Oech, Roger Von

40.

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

41.

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

42.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

43.

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

44.

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

45.

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

46.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

47.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

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