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

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

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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.

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.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Laura Preble

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

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Ovid

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Motto

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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 has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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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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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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