Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ovid

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Melbourne, Lord

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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.

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Kissinger, Henry

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bennis, Warren

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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Ward, Ted

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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.

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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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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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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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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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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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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Lindner, Robert

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, French

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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 private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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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

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

Maurois, Andre

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without'playing up'to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux

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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

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

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 well being of the people is the supreme law.

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon