Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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.

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.

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, German

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

Maxwell, John C.

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Motto

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Half, Robert

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

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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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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Ovid