Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Depree, Max

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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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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Ford, Henry

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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 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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Caine, Mark

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

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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.

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

Motto

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Education is the mother of leadership.