Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Melbourne, Lord

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

Motto

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Laura Preble

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Naisbitt, John

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ward, Ted

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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

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

Motto

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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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

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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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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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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 boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, German