Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

- Adair, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Depree, Max

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Allen, Norman

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Motto

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall