Motivational Quotes

Leadership

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about 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.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Perot, H. Ross

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

The right man comes at the right time.

Proverb, Italian

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Proverb, German

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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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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Depree, Max

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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

Robinson, H. Wheeler

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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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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

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

Melbourne, Lord

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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

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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

Walters, J. Donald

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

Churchill, Winston

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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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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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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