Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Milton, John

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

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

Meir, Golda

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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.

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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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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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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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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Daniel Akst

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Confucius

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

Peter Drucker

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl