Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Proverb, German

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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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 person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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