Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

- Robinson, H. Wheeler

Best Quotes about Leadership

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Hennessy, Edward

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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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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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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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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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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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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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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

Lao-Tzu

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes of Sinope

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

Depree, Max

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

Lukas, Wayne

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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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

Half, Robert

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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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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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Will, George F.

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Bennis, Warren

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

George Goethals