Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Ward, Ted

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Depree, Max

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, German

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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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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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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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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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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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.