Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

- George Goethals

Best Quotes about Leadership

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Milton, John

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

Miller, Henry

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Motto

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ward, Ted

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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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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Batten, Joe

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Half, Robert

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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.