Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

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

Ovid

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, French

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.