Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Walters, J. Donald

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

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

Ovid

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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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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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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.

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

Confucius

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Proverb, German

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Ward, Ted

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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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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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

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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