Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

George Goethals

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

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!

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Diderot, Denis

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Schorr, James

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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

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Motto

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Proverb, German

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Iacocca, Lee

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Laura Preble

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, French

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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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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