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

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ward, Ted

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.

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

Proverb

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Milton, John

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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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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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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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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Motto

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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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

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Confucius

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

Batten, Joe

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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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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

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.