Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Men are lead by trifles.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bennis, Warren

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

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

Confucius

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

Batten, Joe

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.

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

Marx, Groucho

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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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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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Motto

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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