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

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Caine, Mark

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Barker, Joel A.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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.

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

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

Milton, John

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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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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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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 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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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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.

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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo