Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Meir, Golda

Best Quotes about Leadership

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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.

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Oech, Roger Von

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Lindner, Robert

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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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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A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Half, Robert

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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

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Maurois, Andre

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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