Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

- Evenius

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Motto

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Ford, Henry

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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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

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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Batten, Joe

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Confucius

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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

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

Wanamaker, John

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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