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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

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

Confucius

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

Ford, Henry

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.

Depree, Max

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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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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Ovid

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Patton, George S.

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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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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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Half, Robert

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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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John