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

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

George Goethals

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

Ford, Henry

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

Schorr, James

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

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Ovid

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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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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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

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

Wanamaker, John

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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ervin, Sam

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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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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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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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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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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

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Updike, John

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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

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Proverb, French

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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

Saying, Zen