Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Batten, Joe

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

Melbourne, Lord

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Diogenes of Sinope

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Milton, John

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Confucius

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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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.

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

Ward, Ted

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett