Motivational Quotes

Leadership

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Schorr, James

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

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

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

Oech, Roger Von

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 manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Bennis, Warren

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

Daniel Akst

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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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 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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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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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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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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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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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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