Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Batten, Joe

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Schorr, James

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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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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Diogenes of Sinope