Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Leadership

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, Ted

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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 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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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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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

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Motto

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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

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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

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

Depree, Max