Motivational Quotes

Leadership

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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.

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

Wanamaker, John

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Proverb, German

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Motto

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

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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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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

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Ward, Ted

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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.

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