Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Allen, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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 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.

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Batten, Joe

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Confucius

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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