Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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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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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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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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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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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Maurois, Andre