Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Leadership

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Wanamaker, John

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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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

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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 lead people walk behind them.