Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Leadership

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Packard, Vance

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Batten, Joe

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

10.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

11.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

12.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

13.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

14.

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.

15.

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

16.

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

Lukas, Wayne

17.

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

18.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Proverb

20.

Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

21.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

23.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

26.

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

28.

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

Ford, Henry

29.

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

30.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

31.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

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

Patton, George S.

34.

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

35.

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

Schorr, James

36.

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

37.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

41.

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

42.

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

43.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

44.

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

45.

Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

46.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

47.

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

Iacocca, Lee

48.

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

Peter Drucker

49.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

50.

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