Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Depree, Max

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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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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 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.

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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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

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Peter Drucker

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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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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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Ward, Ted

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.