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

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Townsend, Robert

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.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Hennessy, Edward

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

Diogenes of Sinope

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

Miller, Henry

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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Depree, Max

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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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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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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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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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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 must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Who has not served cannot command.

Florio, John

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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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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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

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

Confucius

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When placed in command -- take charge.

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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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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

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

Walters, J. Donald

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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 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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Proverb, French

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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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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