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

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.

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

Motto

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

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

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

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

Maurois, Andre

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

11.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

12.

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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Schorr, James

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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.

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lukas, Wayne

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Hesburgh, Theodore M.

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

44.

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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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.