Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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

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

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Proverb, French

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Half, Robert

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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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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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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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 best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Confucius

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

Maxwell, John C.

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Naisbitt, John

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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 person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

Miller, Henry