Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

- Evenius

Best Quotes about Leadership

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Motto

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

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.

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

Proverb, French

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schorr, James

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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 challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Allen, Norman

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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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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Ovid

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.