Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Laura Preble

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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

Milton, John

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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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 task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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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 leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Proverb, German

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Maurois, Andre

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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