Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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

Packard, Vance

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

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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

Proverb, French

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Milton, John

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

Proverb, German

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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Batten, Joe

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

Ward, Ted

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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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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Ovid

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Churchill, Winston

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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 leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.