Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Leadership

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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.

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

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

Meir, Golda

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lao-Tzu

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Depree, Max

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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wanamaker, John

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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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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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Proverb, French

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Schorr, James

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Confucius

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman