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

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Ford, Henry

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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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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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Bennis, Warren

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

Milton, John

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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 world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

Batten, Joe

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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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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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.

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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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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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 blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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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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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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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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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard