Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

George Goethals

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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

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

Packard, Vance

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Patton, George S.

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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

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Marx, Groucho

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

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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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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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 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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Confucius

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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