Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Patton, George S.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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

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

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.