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

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

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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

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Naisbitt, John

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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 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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

Motto

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

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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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

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Lindner, Robert

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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

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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.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Confucius

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca