Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Depree, Max

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Half, Robert

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Barker, Joel A.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ovid

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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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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led

Evans, Bergen

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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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

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

Diogenes of Sinope

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When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, German

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon