Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Diderot, Denis

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.

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bennis, Warren

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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 who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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 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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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 boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

Laura Preble

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

Naisbitt, John

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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 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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Maurois, Andre