Motivational Quotes

Leadership

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

Marden, Orison Swett

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Confucius

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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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 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

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De