Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wanamaker, John

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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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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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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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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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.

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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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

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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