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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.
Leadership Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Leadership

1.
To lead people walk behind them.
Lao-Tzu

2.
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

3.
Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.
Aeschylus

4.
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!
Selfridge, H. Gordon

5.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

6.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca

8.
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
Melbourne, Lord

9.
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led
Evans, Bergen

10.
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.
Syrus, Publilius

11.
Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

12.
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
Batten, Joe

13.
The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Updike, John

15.
Who has not served cannot command.
Florio, John

16.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Hesburgh, Theodore M.

17.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
Marx, Groucho

18.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Peters, Thomas J.

19.
Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
Lincoln, Abraham

20.
Education is the mother of leadership.
Willkie, Wendell L.

21.
Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.
Schorr, James

22.
A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

23.
Keep cool and you will command everyone.
Justinian

24.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

25.
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.

26.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Schwarzkopf, Norman

27.
An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
Maxwell, John C.

29.
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
Forbes, B. C.

30.
Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.
'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Cervantes, Miguel De

32.
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

33.
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
Anderson, Marian

34.
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
Disraeli, Benjamin

35.
It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
Oech, Roger Von

36.
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
Townsend, Robert

37.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
Churchill, Winston

38.
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

39.
The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.
Motto

40.
If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
Confucius

41.
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

42.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker

43.
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Lombardi, Vince

44.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.
Saying, Zen

45.
Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.
Allen, Norman

46.
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

47.
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.

48.
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
Ewing, Russell H.

49.
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Carlyle, Thomas

50.
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
Marden, Orison Swett


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