Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Hennessy, Edward

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, 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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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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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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Half, Robert

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Meir, Golda