Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leaders are readers.

- Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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

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

Proverb

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

Parker, Dorothy

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Depree, Max

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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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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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 boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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.

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

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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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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

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam