Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Miller, Henry

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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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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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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Peter Drucker

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Naisbitt, John

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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

Depree, Max

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

Confucius

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.