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

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

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

Bennis, Warren

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

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Packard, Vance

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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

Proverb, German

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Churchill, Winston

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

Motto

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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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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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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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Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Johnston, Albert Sidney

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Depree, Max

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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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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.

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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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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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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Ward, Ted

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo