Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Leadership

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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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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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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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

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

Milton, John

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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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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 ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

George Goethals

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

Proverb, French

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Ovid

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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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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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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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De