Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Proverb, German

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

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

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Depree, Max

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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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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Motto

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Half, Robert

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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 final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter