Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Townsend, Robert

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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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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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.

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

Schorr, James

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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 wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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

Bennis, Warren

25.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peter Drucker

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

Motto

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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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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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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

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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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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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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 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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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 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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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

Miller, Henry

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu