Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Barker, Joel A.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Patton, George S.

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

Lindner, Robert

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Proverb, German

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Batten, Joe

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ovid

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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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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Ward, Ted

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.