Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Half, Robert

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Maxwell, John C.

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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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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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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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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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

Saying, Zen

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

Laura Preble

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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