Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Leadership

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

Stendhal, Henri B.

When we think we lead we are most led.

Byron, Lord

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Oech, Roger Von

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

Diogenes of Sinope

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Motto

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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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Education is the mother of leadership.

Willkie, Wendell L.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Leadership must be established from the top down.

Nunn, Sam

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

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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

Parker, Dorothy

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Knox, John

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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

Ovid

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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 are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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

Confucius

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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

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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Anderson, Marian

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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 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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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

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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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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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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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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