Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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 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

10.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

11.

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.

12.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

13.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

14.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

15.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

17.

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

18.

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

Meir, Golda

19.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

20.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

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

Patton, George S.

22.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

23.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

25.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

26.

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

27.

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

Walters, J. Donald

28.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

29.

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.

30.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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.

33.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

34.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

35.

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

Iacocca, Lee

36.

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.

37.

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

Hennessy, Edward

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

42.

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

Caine, Mark

43.

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

44.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

45.

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

46.

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

Maxwell, John C.

47.

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

48.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

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

50.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon