Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Schorr, James

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.

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Depree, Max

The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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 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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

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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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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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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Proverb, French

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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.