Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Milton, John

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Laura Preble

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

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Confucius

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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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 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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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peter Drucker

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

Oech, Roger Von

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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