Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Miller, Henry

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

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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 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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Confucius

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

Diderot, Denis

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Half, Robert

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Patton, George S.

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Milton, John

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb, French

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Schorr, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Peter Drucker

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Batten, Joe

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu