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

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Marx, Groucho

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Schorr, James

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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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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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

Batten, Joe

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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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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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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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.