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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Townsend, Robert

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Daniel Akst

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Batten, Joe

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

Proverb

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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.

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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

Ovid

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Confucius

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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

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

Melbourne, Lord