Motivational Quotes

Leadership

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

- Pope John XXIII

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Rohn, Jim

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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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

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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

Proverb, German

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Lombardi, Vince