Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Men are lead by trifles.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Bennis, Warren

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, German

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Proverb, French

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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

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Motto

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

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

Oech, Roger Von