Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

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

Patton, George S.

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.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Confucius

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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 good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Motto

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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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 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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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter Drucker

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Jung, Carl

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney