Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

- Evenius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Walters, J. Donald

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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.

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

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

Saying, Zen

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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.

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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

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Ovid

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.