Motivational Quotes

Leadership

To lead people walk behind them.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Townsend, Robert

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Schorr, James

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Batten, Joe

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

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ward, Ted

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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