Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Popularity is not leadership.

- Marcinko, Richard

Best Quotes about Leadership

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Norman

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

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.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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

Ward, Ted

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

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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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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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.

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

Half, Robert

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Motto

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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