Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Leadership

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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

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

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Maurois, Andre

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Half, Robert

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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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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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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

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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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

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Motto

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

Adelman, Ken

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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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 high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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 must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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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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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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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, 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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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.