Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

- Newcomb, Arthur W.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Proverb, French

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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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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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

Humes, James

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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 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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Motto

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

Proverb, German

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

Laura Preble

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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

Oech, Roger Von

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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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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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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