Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ervin, Sam

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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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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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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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 a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Ovid

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, German

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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