Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Leadership

1.

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.

2.

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

Lukas, Wayne

3.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

4.

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

Walters, J. Donald

5.

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

Naisbitt, John

6.

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

7.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

8.

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

Proverb, German

9.

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

Lindner, Robert

10.

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

Perot, H. Ross

11.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

14.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

15.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

16.

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.

17.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

19.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

20.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

21.

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

Laura Preble

22.

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.

23.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

24.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

25.

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

26.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Diderot, Denis

29.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

30.

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.

31.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

32.

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

Proverb, French

33.

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

Barker, Joel A.

34.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

35.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Schorr, James

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

42.

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.

43.

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

Caine, Mark

44.

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

45.

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

Bennis, Warren

46.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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