Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Ward, Ted

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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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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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, German

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Proverb, French

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Motto

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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

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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Forbes, B. C.

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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.