Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Maxwell, John C.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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.

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.

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.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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

Proverb, French

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

Motto

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

Confucius

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Caine, Mark

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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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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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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.