Motivational Quotes

Leadership

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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

Proverb, German

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laura Preble

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Depree, Max

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Leadership is action, not position.