Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Parker, Dorothy

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Wanamaker, John

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Caine, Mark

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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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 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

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

Depree, Max

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

Ward, Ted

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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 right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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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 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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A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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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