Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Maurois, Andre

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.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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.

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Laura Preble

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

Motto

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Confucius

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

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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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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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

39.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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

Proverb, German

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

43.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Schorr, James

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord