Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

- Justinian

Best Quotes about Leadership

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Saying, Zen

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Bennis, Warren

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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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 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

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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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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 is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Lao-Tzu

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince