Motivational Quotes

Leadership

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Confucius

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Motto

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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.

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Laura Preble

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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