Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Perot, H. Ross

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Saying, Zen

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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 has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Caine, Mark

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Bennis, Warren

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Melbourne, Lord

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John