Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

- Johnston, Albert Sidney

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Caine, Mark

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

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Confucius

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Patton, George S.

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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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