Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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

Peter Drucker

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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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

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walters, J. Donald

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Naisbitt, John

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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