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 leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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 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.

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

Motto

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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 the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Proverb, German

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

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

Schorr, James

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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Ovid

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Confucius

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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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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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

Oech, Roger Von

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