Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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.

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

Oech, Roger Von

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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 world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Depree, Max

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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