Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Ovid

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.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Confucius

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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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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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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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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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 best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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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

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Naisbitt, John

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard