Motivational Quotes

Leadership

When we think we lead we are most led.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Lincoln, Abraham

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Laura Preble

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Motto

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Depree, Max

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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

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Proverb, French

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Naisbitt, John

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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.