Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Patton, George S.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

Proverb

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Motto

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bennis, Warren

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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