Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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.

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ovid

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

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

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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

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

Peter Drucker

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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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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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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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Maxwell, John C.

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ward, Ted

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Townsend, Robert

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wanamaker, John

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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Ward, William A.

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

Lukas, Wayne

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Depree, Max

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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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