Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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.

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

Depree, Max

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, French

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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