Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Motto

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Maxwell, John C.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Batten, Joe

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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 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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.