Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Leadership

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Churchill, Winston

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Caine, Mark

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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

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.

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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

Depree, Max

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

Proverb, French

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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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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Motto

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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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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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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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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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

Parrish, Amos

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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 wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.