Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

- Landry, Tom

Best Quotes about Leadership

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Half, Robert

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

Ward, Ted

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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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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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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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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, 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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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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 leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Schorr, James

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

Peter Drucker

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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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

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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.

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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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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

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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