Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

- Ward, Ted

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Batten, Joe

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.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

Depree, Max

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Ford, Henry

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

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Laura Preble

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Saying, Zen

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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