Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Oech, Roger Von

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

Namath, Joe

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

Churchill, Winston

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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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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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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

Peter Drucker

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Packard, Vance

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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ward, Ted

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

Proverb, French

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

Parker, Dorothy

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John