Motivational Quotes

Leadership

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

- Azai, Rabbi Ben

Best Quotes about Leadership

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Ovid

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Batten, Joe

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Townsend, Robert

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Confucius

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Ward, Ted

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Half, Robert

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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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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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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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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Churchill, Winston