Motivational Quotes

Leadership

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Diderot, Denis

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, German

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Milton, John

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Perot, H. Ross

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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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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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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 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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Schorr, James

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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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