Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Saying, Zen

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

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.

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

Caine, Mark

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Milton, John

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Marx, Groucho

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Peter Drucker

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

Laura Preble

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Walters, J. Donald

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Adelman, Ken

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

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon