Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Hesburgh, Theodore M.

Best Quotes about Leadership

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Proverb

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

Schorr, James

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Caine, Mark

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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.

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Half, Robert

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, German