Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Proverb, French

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

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

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Proverb

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

George Goethals

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Motto

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

Miller, Henry

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine, St.

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Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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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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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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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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

Proverb, French

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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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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.