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

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ward, Ted

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.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Perot, H. Ross

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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Half, Robert

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Depree, Max

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, 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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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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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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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