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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
- Lao-Tzu
Leadership Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Leadership

1.
Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.
Aeschylus

2.
Men are lead by trifles.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Rohn, Jim

4.
When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu

5.
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
Melbourne, Lord

6.
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Meir, Golda

7.
Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
Proverb, German

8.
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.

9.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Seneca

10.
The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.
Miller, Henry

11.
In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.
Enrico, Roger

12.
To lead people walk behind them.
Lao-Tzu

13.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal, Henri B.

14.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.
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.

16.
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Half, Robert

17.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
Churchill, Winston

18.
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Carlyle, Thomas

19.
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.
Parrish, Amos

20.
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

21.
The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
Parker, Dorothy

23.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.
It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
Oech, Roger Von

25.
The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.
Motto

26.
Who has not served cannot command.
Florio, John

27.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Marcos, Ferdinand E.

28.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu

29.
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
Townsend, Robert

30.
If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

31.
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.
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

33.
A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
Milton, John

34.
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Patton, George S.

35.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Diogenes of Sinope

36.
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

37.
Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.
Schorr, James

38.
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.

39.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals

40.
The person who has no enemies has no followers.
Piatt, Don

41.
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

42.
When we think we lead we are most led.
Byron, Lord

43.
The well being of the people is the supreme law.

44.
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
Schwarzkopf, Norman

45.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.
Saying, Zen

46.
We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.
Laura Preble

47.
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Peters, Thomas J.

48.
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Geneen, Harold S.

49.
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

50.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.


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