Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ervin, Sam

Best Quotes about Leadership

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

George Goethals

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Melbourne, Lord

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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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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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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, German

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

Adelman, Ken

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

Will, George F.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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 leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Maurois, Andre

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore