Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Peter Drucker

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

Ovid

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Milton, John

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.