Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Maxwell, John C.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Depree, Max

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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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

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Confucius

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Hennessy, Edward

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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo