Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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.

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.

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

Walters, J. Donald

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Motto

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

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

George Goethals

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Melbourne, Lord

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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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

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

Milton, John

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Confucius

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Naisbitt, John

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII