Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Azai, Rabbi Ben

Best Quotes about Leadership

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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.

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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.

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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert 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