Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Oech, Roger Von

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Naisbitt, John

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Batten, Joe

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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

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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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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Schorr, James

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

Packard, Vance

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

Proverb, German

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Patton, George S.

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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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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

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Half, Robert

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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

Lukas, Wayne

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Peter Drucker