Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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.

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.

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Perot, H. Ross

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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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

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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 firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Meir, Golda

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Depree, Max

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston