Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Leadership

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Ward, Ted

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

Proverb, German

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Batten, Joe

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Motto

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Depree, Max

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius