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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proverb

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

Depree, Max

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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

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

George Goethals

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Ward, Ted

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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.

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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!

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

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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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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Laura Preble

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler