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

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.

Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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

Proverb, French

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Depree, Max

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

Schorr, James

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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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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Motto

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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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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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 high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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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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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

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, 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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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Perot, H. Ross

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Naisbitt, John

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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