Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Leadership

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

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

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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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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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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

Proverb, French

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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.

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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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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 we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.