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

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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.

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

George Goethals

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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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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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Ward, Ted

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Depree, Max

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Motto

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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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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Ford, Henry

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

Confucius

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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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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.