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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Diderot, Denis

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb

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

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Motto

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Motto

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Stendhal, Henri B.