Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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.

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

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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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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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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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 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

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Lao-Tzu

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Maurois, Andre

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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.