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

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Packard, Vance

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

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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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 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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Daniel Akst

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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 is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.