Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

- King George VI

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Motto

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.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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

Peter Drucker

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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 is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett