Motivational Quotes

Leadership

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

- Lindner, Robert

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Depree, Max

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

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

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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 aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Brecht, Bertolt

18.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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

Confucius

23.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

Proverb, German

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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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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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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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

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

Motto

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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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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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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Peters, Thomas J.

46.

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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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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