Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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.

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

Peter Drucker

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

Diogenes of Sinope

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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!

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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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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