Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Leadership

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.

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.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Townsend, Robert

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Confucius

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Motto

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Lukas, Wayne

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal, Henri B.

21.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, German

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Peter Drucker

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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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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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.

Adair, John

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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 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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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

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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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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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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.