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

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

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Miller, Henry

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Depree, Max

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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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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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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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

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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

28.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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

Ervin, Sam

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin