Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Half, Robert

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

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lukas, Wayne

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Schorr, James

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Laura Preble

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Johnson, Lyndon 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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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 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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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 potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Ward, Ted

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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