Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

- Packard, Vance

Best Quotes about Leadership

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Milton, John

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 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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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Naisbitt, John

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Motto

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Adelman, Ken

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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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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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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