Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Leadership

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Proverb, German

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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 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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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

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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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 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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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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 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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.