Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Miller, Henry

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 nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Laura Preble

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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

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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 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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Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ward, Ted

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

Motto

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

Maxwell, John C.

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.