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

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

Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Batten, Joe

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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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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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

Enrico, Roger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Herbert, George

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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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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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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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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 first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, Ted

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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

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble