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

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

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Churchill, Winston

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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 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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Half, Robert

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

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

Proverb, German

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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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