Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Batten, Joe

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

Half, Robert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Maxwell, John C.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Naisbitt, John

10.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Oech, Roger Von

15.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

18.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

19.

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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

21.

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 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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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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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

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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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

29.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

35.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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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 is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

39.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

40.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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.

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

Confucius

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

Ward, Ted