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

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

Packard, Vance

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

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

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

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

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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 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.

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

Motto

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Ovid

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Depree, Max

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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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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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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 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

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

Peter Drucker

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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