Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

- Marcos, Ferdinand E.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

George Goethals

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Depree, Max

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

13.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

14.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

18.

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

19.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

21.

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

22.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

23.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

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.

25.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

26.

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

Allen, Norman

27.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

28.

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

Motto

29.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

32.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

33.

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

Townsend, Robert

34.

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

Ward, Ted

35.

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

38.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

39.

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

Lindner, Robert

40.

Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

45.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

46.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

47.

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

Half, Robert

48.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

49.

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

50.

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

Motto