Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

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

Parker, Dorothy

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Proverb, German

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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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 good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Milton, John

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Depree, Max

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Confucius

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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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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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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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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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